Javier A. Tabush

 

"it is a part of man’s nature, of his animal as well as his rational nature, to desire positive responses from others. The desire to be liked by others, to have pleasant day-to-day interactions with other people, and to enjoy positive feedback on many levels of social interaction is a need of man’s conceptual and perceptual nature. It is a vital factor in human development. A person cannot experience the most happiness possible in life if this deep need is left unfulfilled." 

 

Why does a happy and self-sufficient man need friends? 

 

 

Concretizing the Self

 

Ayn Rand spent much of her career defending and explaining man’s unique form of consciousness — reason. 

Rand argued that man produces and needs art because his conceptual consciousness has a special need to concretize its basic grasp of reality. 

 

 

"It is right to enjoy interacting pleasantly with the cashier at the grocery store if she is treating one well. It is right to want to be friendly. It is right to enjoy the love of our natural families, even if they do not share many of our philosophical values but do have other significant values in common with us"

 

What are social metaphysics? 

 

 

 

social metaphysics: the psychological syndrome that characterizes a person who holds the minds of other men, not objective reality, as his ultimate psycho-epistemological frame of reference/

 

"Enjoyment of interactions with other sentient beings is not confined to the human species."

 

 

 

"Man’s highest value, his own self, is something he can never perceptually experience as an integrated, whole, and concrete thing. He can only focus on some one specific aspect of his self at any one time. The rest of his self can only be grasped by him abstractly, by reflecting on and integrating all he knows about himself into an imagined picture. He cannot experience himself concretely as a whole person — a personality — as he can experience others. He cannot see the facial expressions or body movements he makes nor hear the tone of his voice as he could perceive these things about another person."