Campus Courses

Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction (Q3-Q4) | 2024

1 Lesson

1h 7m

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Ayn Rand’s novels, We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, are self-consciously philosophical novels, containing abstract themes, characters driven by opposing moral principles, and conflicts rooted in clashing worldviews. And more than that,...

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Gena Gorlin

An Introduction to Psychology | 2024

1 Lesson

2h 15m

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This course will cover the major schools of thought, methods of inquiry, and empirical findings taught in a typical Introduction to Psychology course. But it will explore how to understand and evaluate these theories, methods,...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Foundations of Physical Science: Motion and Gravitation | 2024

9 Lessons

13h 2m

Level

ARU

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This course will trace the development of man’s understanding of motion and gravitation, starting with the earliest astronomical observations of pre-Greek civilizations, and culminating in the achievements of Isaac Newton. How did mankind progress from...

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Tara Smith

Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin

Introduction to the Objectivist Ethics | 2024

4 Lessons

8h 12m

Level

ARU

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This course will examine the foundational principles of Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy while addressing core questions that her theory typically raises. Its major topics will be: the foundations of value; the objectivity of value (in...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Objectivist Logic | 2024

14 Lessons

13h 26m

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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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Shoshana Milgram

Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs | 2024

5 Lessons

10h 22m

Level

ARU

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Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs: The Hero with the Passion and Power of Prometheus. The Man Who Laughs, according to Ayn Rand, was the best novel ever written by Victor Hugo, her favorite novelist. Together, we...

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Gregory Salmieri

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

Plato and Aristotle | 2024

19 Lessons

40h 2m

Level

ARU

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This course will survey the essentials of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. We’ll trace the development of Plato’s thought from the early dialogues, which focus on various ethical theses and on the standards for...

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Yaron Brook

Chairman of the Board

Intellectual Development Workshop | 2024

9 Lessons

16h 30m

Level

ARU

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This is an invitation-only live course for select members of the ARU Graduate Center. The Intellectual Development seminar will focus on honing participants’ public speaking skills and advanced knowledge of Objectivism. Participants will develop, deliver...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Intermediate Writing | 2024

6 Lessons

11h 38m

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Writing is a skill, a creative activity. As such, it cannot be learned primarily by reading a textbook or listening to lectures. One learns to write by writing . . . and writing and writing...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

Perception

32 Lessons

31h 15m

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Topics include perception as the inerrant foundation of the conceptual faculty and of conceptual knowledge; the question of the validity of the senses; presentationalism vs. representationalism; the three skeptical attacks on perception; sensations and perception;...

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Don Watkins

Tal Tsfany

Philosophy, Work, and Business

8 Lessons

16h 11m

Level

ARU

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Objectivism upholds productive work as the central activity of a good life. Taking your life seriously requires taking work seriously. In this course, you will learn the principles and attitudes that will guide you in...

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Harry Binswanger

Member, Board of Directors

ITOE, Advanced Topics

62 Lessons

62h 0m

Level

ARU

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2524.9675“ITOE, Advanced Topics” is an intensive study of Rand’s theory of knowledge covering the later material in Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Leonard Peikoff’s essay “The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy” and the Appendix to the second edition....

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