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Keith Lockitch
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Elan Journo

OGC: Advanced Writing and Editing

3 Lessons
5h 41m
Level
Advanced
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This is an invitation-only live course in the Objectivist Graduate Center. Advanced Writing and Editing builds on the skills learned in the Writing Course taught in Year 2 of the Objectivist Academic Center. It focuses...
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Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and Today’s Leading Expert on Objectivism

Reflections on Life and Personal Values

5 Lessons
5h 54m
Level
Intermediate
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In this collection of talks spanning more than 20 years, Leonard Peikoff reflects on a wide range of topics of significant importance to his life, both personally and professionally. Several of these discussions are informal:...
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Yaron Brook
Chairman of the Board

In Defense of Financial Markets

7 Lessons
7h 56m
Level
Intermediate
Completed 0%
Free, unregulated financial markets serve the vital function of providing capital to the producers. Yet, through the ages, banking and other financial activities have been viewed as corrupt and exploitative. From the money-changers of the...
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Ayn Rand
Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

The Art of Fiction

12 Lessons
22h 34m
Level
Intermediate
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In 1958, the year after Atlas Shrugged was published, a small group of aspiring writers and fiction lovers gathered in Ayn Rand’s living room for an informal course on literature. Speaking extemporaneously from just a few handwritten...
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Jason Rheins

Kant’s Philosophy (Part 2): Moral Philosophy

3 Lessons
3h 0m
Level
Advanced
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No thinker has had a greater influence on philosophy in the last two centuries than Immanuel Kant. Building on his metaphysics and epistemology, Kant proposed an ethics that dispensed with the need for a divine...
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Jason Rheins

Kant’s Philosophy (Part 1): Theoretical Philosophy

3 Lessons
4h 25m
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Advanced
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No thinker has had a greater influence on philosophy in the last two centuries than Immanuel Kant. This course presents the historical context in which Kant developed his metaphysics and epistemology and explains his most...
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Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and Today’s Leading Expert on Objectivism

Lectures on Culture and Politics

5 Lessons
6h 10m
Level
Intermediate
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In this collection of talks and lectures, Leonard Peikoff addresses key cultural, philosophical, and political phenomena from the perspective of Objectivism. Topics include: the philosophic foundations of capitalism and the rise of statism in America,...
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Harry Binswanger
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Gregory Salmieri

Graduate Seminar on Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

17 Lessons
38h 47m
Level
Advanced
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In this Summer 2021 seminar, graduate students and young professionals in philosophy examine the best secondary literature on Ayn Rand's epistemology, and do an intensive chapter-by-chapter reading of her Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. This course is...
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Gregory Salmieri
Senior Scholar of Philosophy at the Salem Center, University of Texas at Austin

Objectivist Epistemology in Outline

4 Lessons
6h 3m
Level
Advanced
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Ayn Rand held that “philosophy is primarily epistemology,” the “science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of acquiring and validating knowledge.” This class surveys Rand’s “new approach to epistemology” — the most original...
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Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and Today’s Leading Expert on Objectivism

The Value of Great (Though Philosophically False) Art

3 Lessons
4h 44m
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Intermediate
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In these lectures, Leonard Peikoff argues that a great work of art has life-serving values to offer even when its philosophic content is untrue. Through analysis of some great works of literature, and a number...
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Tara Smith
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Onkar Ghate

Objectivism’s Approach to the Virtues

5 Lessons
7h 6m
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Intermediate
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In this collection of talks, Tara Smith and Onkar Ghate survey three of the moral virtues that are most distinctive to the Objectivist ethics: independence, pride and productiveness. Lastly, Dr. Smith shows how some character...
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Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and Today’s Leading Expert on Objectivism

The DIM Hypothesis II

6 Lessons
9h 2m
Level
Advanced
Completed 0%
In this six-lecture course recorded in July of 2010 at the Objectivist summer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Leonard Peikoff discusses the final parts of his then book-in-progress The DIM Hypothesis, published in 2012. Here is...
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Tara Smith
Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas. Her main interests concern the nature of values and virtues, and the requirements of objective law. Dr. Smith is author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (2015); Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (2006); Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality (2000); and Moral Rights and Political Freedom (1995) as well as a number of articles in such venues as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Law and Philosophy and Social Philosophy and Policy. Smith’s current research focuses on intellectual freedom. Dr. Smith is the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism and holds the Anthem Foundation Fellowship. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Ayn Rand Institute.
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Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and Today’s Leading Expert on Objectivism

Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall Forum

14 Lessons
20h 29m
Level
Beginner
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In 1961, Ayn Rand received a speaking invitation from the Ford Hall Forum, a group that sponsors free public lectures on social and political issues. She spoke there almost every year until her death. From 1982...
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