Both Uses of
dogma
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew only-as from a great, clear distance-that man exists for the achievement of his desires, and he wondered why he stood here, he wondered who had the right to demand that he waste a single irreplaceable hour of his life, when his only desire was to seize the slender figure in gray and hold her through the length of whatever time there was left for him to exist.†
Chpt 2.2
- We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil.†
Chpt 3.7 *dogma = code of beliefs
Definition:
a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative by some group