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What is the connection between an individuals moral worth and his intelligence, in the Objectivist view?

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What is the connection between an individuals moral worth and his intelligence, in the Objectivist view?

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“Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality–not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute. “Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought.

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