Ayn Rand view of selfishness and her philosophy of Objectivism with the Buddhist ethics of altruism do not mix well. Rand thoughts that altruism was harmful to people as a society because the desires to help yourself is evil. on the other hand for the Buddhist philosophy argued by Gunapala Dharmasari preaches the idea of karma and Ahisma which says not to harm anything even the smallest creatures. Rand's ideas and the Buddhist ideas on altruism conflict with each other and parts are argued which is to be better.
Rational self are the values for a persons survival not the values from their desires, emotions or feelings. Integrity comes from the loyalty to a persons values like helping someone in need gives yourself integrity. The human good which does not require human sacrifice and cant be obtain from the sacrif
The two theories which I agree on are both from the Buddhist philosophy the first one was karma. This was an easy one which probably everyone knows that is true with the state of mind which you are in. When you are feeling down you dont think anything is going your way and you always are not in the correct mind to give the best effort possible. This was easy for me because I relate a lot of my sports accomplishments and failures with karma. Not the karma which I always thought Karma to mean (the thought what goes around comes around) but the sense in when you are are tense or nervous or doubting yourself you only play or do whatever up to those expectations. When you are feeling good and relaxed nothing can sop you and the sky is the limit. The other one is Ahism because of the fact that if everyone took a little more tim
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