Leonard Peikoff explains the purpose and style of OPAR, as an academic presentation of Objectivism. After establishing the general structure of the course, Peikoff begins his discussion of chapter 1, which focuses on axioms—the fundamental starting points of all knowledge—the primacy of existence, causality and the mind-body dichotomy.
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