The morality of reason follows from the axiom that existence exists and the choice to live.
Reason, purpose, and self-esteem are cardinal values.
These values imply and require the virtues of rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, and pride.
But virtue is not its own reward. Life is the reward of virtue, and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
Pleasure and pain, joy and suffering, are the emotional forms in which we experience values. But emotions are governed by what we choose to value.
True happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy, and is thus possible only to those who pursue rational values.
There are no conflicts of interest among rational men.
The proper means of interaction with others is trade.
The initiation of physical force is evil; force and mind are opposites. Force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who start its use.
