Campus Courses

Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

ITOE

18 Lessons

22h 37m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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

18 Lessons

22h 13m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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

6 Lessons

12h 39m

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

Completed 0%

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

20 Lessons

48h 17m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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

Completed 0%

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

Completed 0%

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

10 Lessons

22h 43m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

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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Robert Mayhew

Professor of Philosophy Seton Hall University

Thomas Aquinas’ Summa contra Gentiles

8 Lessons

17h 19m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

This course is a critical examination of Aquinas’ Summa contra Gentiles, focusing on the arguments he presents in defense of the existence and nature of God, and of God’s relationship to the universe and to man....

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Robert Mayhew

Professor of Philosophy Seton Hall University

Aristotle: Father of Romanticism

3 Lessons

4h 7m

Level

Intermediate

Completed 0%

Could there have been a Romantic school of art if not for the ideas of Aristotle? In this course, Dr. Robert Mayhew addresses this intriguing question. Plato, the first philosopher with a theory of esthetics, saw...

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Gregory Salmieri

Senior Scholar of Philosophy at the Salem Center, University of Texas at Austin

Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge

3 Lessons

4h 30m

Level

Advanced

Completed 0%

Aristotle is the father and chief defender of the view that the human mind can achieve a deep and rich understanding of the world in terms of fundamental principles derived ultimately from sense-perception. Aristotle’s theory...

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Nikos Sotirakopoulos

Visiting Fellow

The Road to Critical Race Theory

17 Lessons

36h 35m

Level

ARU

Completed 0%

This is an ongoing live course of Ayn Rand University, a new kind of university which provides advanced live courses in philosophy and communication from an Objectivist perspective. ARU courses include weekly live classes conducted by...

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