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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Introduction to Writing (Q4-Q1)

5 Lessons

12h 28m

Level

ARU

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This course teaches the basic principles and methods of objective communication. We’ll treat communication as a science, as a skill that has certain objective principles that can be learned and applied to the improvement of...

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Don Watkins

Persuasion Mastery: How to Effectively Champion Radical Ideas

8 Lessons

16h 25m

Level

ARU

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Persuading people of unpopular ideas is insanely difficult—and yet provably possible. In this course students will learn the key skillsets of persuasion, including clarity, framing, motivation, and fact/feeling integration, as well as how to avoid...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Oral Communication: Advanced Workshop

8 Lessons

16h 19m

Level

ARU

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Yaron Brook will lead advanced workshops in which he discusses some of the principles of effective oral communication and some of the practical skills one needs to develop and automatize to gain mastery in this...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Oral Communication: The Basics

8 Lessons

15h 5m

Level

ARU

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Ayn Rand was interested in conveying her ideas to new audiences; we at ARI are too. More widely, learning to effectively communicate your ideas to new audiences is an important skill to learn. This course...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

ITOE

49 Lessons

61h 42m

Level

ARU

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A careful, systematic study of Rand’s monograph, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE). The course goal is to get fully clear on what the theory is, why it was needed–i.e., the failure of all previous solutions to the...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Objectivist Logic

49 Lessons

60h 23m

Level

ARU

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Ayn Rand embraced Aristotelian logic but took it much further. This course, through lectures and homework exercises, reviews the three most important ideas of Aristotelian logic and then focuses on the new principles of proper...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

Philosophy, Work, and Business

8 Lessons

16h 53m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

Objectivism upholds productive work as the central activity of a good life. To take your life seriously requires taking work seriously. This course will explore principles and attitudes that will help guide you in your...

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Shoshana Milgram

Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Investigating the Mind of a Murderer

8 Lessons

16h 43m

Level

ARU

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Dostoevsky’s first great novel is sometimes described not as a “whodunit,” but as a “whydunit.” Raskolnikov’s motivations are stated repeatedly, yet they remain mysterious. To uncover the reasons for his actions, we need to attend...

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Jason Rheins

Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Reason

23 Lessons

56h 23m

Level

ARU

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In this course we will study Kant’s mature theoretical philosophy—i.e. his metaphysics and epistemology—through a close reading of his magnum opus, The Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), and closely related materials. Our goals will be to learn...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

John Locke’s Political Philosophy

3 Lessons

4h 22m

Level

Intermediate

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More than any other Enlightenment thinker, John Locke was responsible for the creation of the United States. His thoughts on the nature of human knowledge, individual rights, and the sacred value of free thought against...

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Adam Mossoff

Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

A Legal System as an Intellectual Achievement

17 Lessons

31h 44m

Level

ARU

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A legal system is a foundation of a civilized society. The law defines how political institutions function and comprises the rules that define how citizens interact in their daily lives. This course will study legal...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Introduction to Writing

19 Lessons

47h 6m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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Harry Binswanger

Harry Binswanger received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 1973 and has taught philosophy at Hunter College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1994 he has taught courses on Ayn Rand’s philosophic system, ethics and epistemology at the Objectivist Academic Center. Dr. Binswanger is the author of How We Know, a book on the theory of knowledge. His previous books are The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts and The Ayn Rand Lexicon. He is coeditor of the second expanded edition of Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. He is a regular speaker at universities on Ayn Rand’s philosophy. A senior contributor at RealClearMarkets, he has also appeared on TV shows hosted by Glenn Beck, Geraldo Rivera and Judge Anthony Napolitano, as well as in two documentary films about Ayn Rand. He also moderates and writes for an email list on Objectivism and its application to today’s issues at www.hbletter.com. He has been a member of the Ayn Rand Institute’s board of directors since the organization’s inception. In Ayn Rand’s last years, Dr. Binswanger became her associate and friend.

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