The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech (Ayn Rand)
BackFrom The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland.
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Uploaded: August 10, 2006 at 3:56 pm
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abbesieyes (January 8, 2009 at 9:12 pm)
The end of objectivism is not perfection in application...but the freedom to grasp after perfection as it seems correct to the individual.
ronpaulspanish (January 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm)
Indeed!
GregWatermann (January 8, 2009 at 7:56 am)
Beautiful.
jereuter01 (January 6, 2009 at 9:00 am)
Beatbuddy's statements responses answers below are correct. Also, Roark is sworn in because monologue is his "testimony" & his summation. Yes, this is basically a simple contract case w/o the monologue hooplah, but also a traditional writer's technique & daily event in courtrooms across the country to make point from a lofty soapbox. Taking courtroom analogy further, at its simplest level Objectivism is impossible; all human beings are subjective - objectivity being an ideal - the judge.
Brettmoan (January 5, 2009 at 1:15 am)
i agree, Not everyone is right, and im not right all the time, but in this i beleive you have assumed alot of things about me.You also appear to have blamed some the philosophies Objectivism as the root of the problems ion the world. I disagree with that. I could just as easily say you and people like are the problem.
Even though i am not obejectivist, for you to assume so was incorrect and ignorant, parts of philosophy I do share, like the idea of responsibility. I'm responsible for my actions
Even though i am not obejectivist, for you to assume so was incorrect and ignorant, parts of philosophy I do share, like the idea of responsibility. I'm responsible for my actions
deadpool03mm (January 5, 2009 at 1:26 am)
I'm a big fan of responsibility myself. And I appologize if I've offended you. However, my personal gripe with Rand is that she portrayed "responsibility" in a number of segments of society that are not really in the habit of demonstrating it.
deadpool03mm (January 5, 2009 at 1:32 am)
Take the last 40 years of American neo-liberalism: Who do you think the gentlemen responsible read in college? Rand begot Goldwater who gave birth to neo-liberalism present.
Brettmoan (January 5, 2009 at 1:14 am)
In now way would Stalin have been the ideal. If your actions are the cause of the pain a misery in the world that is against the philosophy. The idea is not to cause or to cure it, its to Not be the cause. if a person is the cause then they can't possibly being a "Randist" he didn't take responsibility for his actions. He changed things through his actions that caused misery, therefore he was not in anyway the idal in Objectivism. The truest objectivist would be a happy, self-sufficient recluse
deadpool03mm (January 5, 2009 at 1:29 am)
If selfishness is the only virtue, then by logical extension who cares about pain and misery? If religion, nationalism, and belief in anything beyond the self is "old thinking" then what does it matter?
deadpool03mm (January 5, 2009 at 1:02 am)
While this is more akin to philosophical perspectives other then relativism which emphasized a "might makes right" perspective, it is ultimately how Randian thinking plays out in reality. Kind of like how the Soviet Union more closely resembled a fascist state then Karl Marx's imagined utopia. As stated before, except for perhaps some hermit living in a cave in Azerbijhan somewhere, one man's action invariably effects communities, cities, countries.