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@Elliot

I don’t see morality as a secondary field after epistemology and metaphysics. If something is rational, should you do it? That’s a moral issue. People wouldn’t get anywhere intellectually/philosophically without some moral ideas about how to live and act.

uhh so I said

@Eternity

From there philosophy branches out into other fields. Morality/ethics talks about what one should do given how reality is and given their knowledge of the world.

Ok, so yeah branching out does make it sound secondary and in my head its kinda “technically” secondary.

So from Philosophy: Who Needs It (though I found this on the AynRandLexicon):

In philosophy, the fundamentals are metaphysics and epistemology. On the basis of a knowable universe and of a rational faculty’s competence to grasp it, you can define man’s proper ethics, politics and esthetics.

ethics rests on a foundation of metaphysics and epistemology if i’m understand Rand correctly here.

though I don’t know if by that she then means ethics is secondary. In the first(?) objectivism course that Peikoff did that Miss Rand endorsed/was there for, he did start it off with talking about ethics briefly before jumping into metaphysics and epistemology.