Art & Literature – ARI Campus

Robert Mayhew

Professor of Philosophy Seton Hall University

Aristotle: Father of Romanticism

3 Lessons

4h 7m

Level

Intermediate

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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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John David Lewis

Ancient Greece (Part 3): The Early Fourth Century

3 Lessons

2h 53m

Level

Intermediate

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The fourth century BC, the events after the defeat of Athens by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, is often seen as the decline of the Greek world, a mere echo of a golden age. But...

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John David Lewis

Ancient Greece (Part 2): Fifth-Century Athens

4 Lessons

4h 0m

Level

Intermediate

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The apex of classical culture is the intellectual revolution of fifth-century Athens: she was nothing less than the intellectual capital and the exemplar of the Greek world. The political context for this development was set...

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John David Lewis

Ancient Greece (Part 1): The Archaic Period

3 Lessons

4h 25m

Level

Intermediate

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Archaic Greece encompasses the three centuries prior to the ascent of classical Greek culture. As historian John David Lewis illustrates, it subsumes intellectual, artistic, and political achievements that are self-sufficient in their own right, but...

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Gregory Salmieri

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

Atlas Shrugged as a Work of Philosophy

4 Lessons

4h 47m

Level

Intermediate

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Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Ayn Rand stated the theme of Atlas Shrugged as: “the role of the mind in man’s existence—and, as corollary, the demonstration of a new moral philosophy: the morality of...

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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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Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and the Author of the Definitive Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

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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Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and the Author of the Definitive Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

The Value of Great (Though Philosophically False) Art

3 Lessons

4h 44m

Level

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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Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and the Author of the Definitive Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

The DIM Hypothesis II

6 Lessons

9h 2m

Level

Advanced

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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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Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and the Author of the Definitive Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

The DIM Hypothesis I

6 Lessons

9h 34m

Level

Advanced

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In this six-lecture course recorded in July of 2007 at the Objectivist summer conference in Telluride, Colorado, Leonard Peikoff discusses the first parts of his then book-in-progress The DIM Hypothesis, published in 2012. Here is a...

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Ayn Rand

Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

Ayn Rand on Art and Culture

3 Lessons

2h 53m

Level

Beginner

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Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! This course examines Ayn Rand’s views on art, it’s importance to individuals and the culture, in her own words. “Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an...

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Gregory Salmieri

Ben Bayer

The Atlas Project

34 Lessons

60h 58m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

The Atlas Project was an online, chapter-by-chapter discussion of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, exploring the novel’s intricate plot and abstract themes through online discussion and live interactive video. RESOURCES Other ways to watch and listen Preview...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

The Fountainhead

8 Lessons

4h 31m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! What motivates a creative thinker? Is it a selfless desire to benefit mankind? A hunger for fame, fortune and accolades? The need to prove superiority? . . ....

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ARI Instructor

Ayn Rand: A Writer’s Life

1 Lesson

1h 10m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Who was Ayn Rand? What kind of person did it take to create the fictional heroes of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and to develop a new philosophy...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

We the Living

7 Lessons

4h 53m

Level

Beginner

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We the Living is Ayn Rand’s first and least-known novel. It is the story of a young woman, Kira Argounova, who is solemnly dedicated to living her own life. But she is trapped in a collectivist...

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Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand’s Foremost Student and the Author of the Definitive Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Eight Great Plays

9 Lessons

17h 42m

Level

Intermediate

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Ayn Rand held that art is an indispensable need of human life, an irreplaceable form of spiritual refueling. In this course, Leonard Peikoff selects eight masterpieces of world literature — eight plays from ancient Greece...

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Keith Lockitch

Vice President of Content & Senior Fellow

Anthem

10 Lessons

3h 59m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of a young man, Equality 7-2521, who yearns for knowledge. But he lives in a bleak,...

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Topic: Art & Literature