Ethics – 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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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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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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Tara Smith

Onkar Ghate

Objectivism’s Approach to the Virtues

5 Lessons

7h 6m

Level

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 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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Onkar Ghate

Tara Smith

Gregory Salmieri

Yaron Brook

Harry Binswanger

Individualism in an Age of Tribalism

5 Lessons

3h 45m

Level

Beginner

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Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Increasingly, our culture pushes us to view ourselves as passive members of one group or another. What matters, we’re told, is not the choices we make as individuals,...

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Gregory Salmieri

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

Ayn Rand’s Conception of Valuing

3 Lessons

4h 23m

Level

Intermediate

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Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! In her fiction and early journal entries, Ayn Rand frequently refers to valuing as an action that one must “know how to” perform. That choice of words represents...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

A Study of Galt’s Speech

5 Lessons

6h 2m

Level

Intermediate

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Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! “This is John Galt speaking.” Thus begins Ayn Rand’s explanation of her revolutionary philosophy, Objectivism—perfectly integrated into the plot of her greatest novel. This lecture course studies Galt’s speech and...

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Tara Smith

Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin

Self-Interest

6 Lessons

6h 51m

Level

Intermediate

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Because self-interest seems natural to most Objectivists, it is easy to take for granted our understanding of it. Yet getting the most out of egoism requires the fullest...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

Judging, Feeling and Not Being Moralistic

2 Lessons

3h 57m

Level

Intermediate

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Dr. Leonard Peikoff offers an intensive analysis of the process of evaluative judgment, applying the enormously abstract subject of morality to difficult cases. These lectures are invaluable guides...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

Certainty and Happiness: Achieving Success in Thought and Action

1 Lesson

2h 2m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Dr. Peikoff’s analysis of the contrast between Objectivism’s “philosophy of success” and the culturally dominant “philosophy of failure”; and the fundamental error shared by the enemies of certainty...

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Onkar Ghate

Gregory Salmieri

What Is Liberty?

7 Lessons

3h 41m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Political figures from Jefferson to Lenin to FDR and philosophers from Locke to Marx to Rawls all claim to stand for liberty, but they have radically different understandings...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

Introduction to Objectivism

1 Lesson

1h 18m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! In this video, philosopher Leonard Peikoff presents the essentials of Ayn Rand’s philosophy to a group of students, then answers their questions. Peikoff, who was Rand’s friend and...

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Ayn Rand

Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

Ayn Rand at Columbia University

14 Lessons

6h 50m

Level

Beginner

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Throughout the 1960s, Ayn Rand conducted a series of radio lectures and interviews on Columbia University’s campus radio station, WKCR. The lectures were often written works that had previously been in print elsewhere, while the...

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Ayn Rand

Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum

19 Lessons

25h 41m

Level

Beginner

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In 1961 Ayn Rand was invited to speak at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, America’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. This marked the beginning of Rand’s relationship with the Forum. Over the years,...

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Tara Smith

Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin

Being Selfish, Being Happy

2 Lessons

2h 41m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! The idea that a person ought to be selfish is so alien to our culture that when people learn that Ayn Rand upheld a morality of selfishness they...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

Unity in Epistemology and Ethics

4 Lessons

7h 0m

Level

Advanced

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In these advanced talks, originally given in 1996, Leonard Peikoff discusses the significance and implications of the principle that all knowledge is interconnected. Peikoff makes the case for the unity of knowledge in great detail...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

History of Philosophy

50 Lessons

36h 38m

Level

Intermediate

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This course was adapted from a series of lectures on the history of Western philosophy, given by Leonard Peikoff to fans of Ayn Rand in the early 1970s. Peikoff holds that a knowledge of the...

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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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Elan Journo

Debi Ghate

The Ayn Rand Bookshelf

1 Lesson

0h 56m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! You may already know of Ayn Rand as author of The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. But did you know that Rand wrote two other novels, plus many nonfiction essays on topics...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

The Philosophy of Objectivism

12 Lessons

32h 11m

Level

Intermediate

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In this course, Leonard Peikoff presents the essentials of Ayn Rand’s philosophy and stresses their practical significance for each individual’s life. Recorded live before New York City audiences in 1976, this course was endorsed by Rand...

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Onkar Ghate

Chief Philosophy Officer & Senior Fellow

The Morality of Freedom

1 Lesson

1h 8m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! Do all people desire freedom? If we look at the history of civilization and at popular political movements over the last hundred years, argues Onkar Ghate, the answer...

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Ayn Rand

Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

Philosophy: Who Needs It

1 Lesson

0h 36m

Level

Beginner

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! What is philosophy — and how is it relevant to my life? Ayn Rand answered these questions in her address to the senior class of the United States...

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Leonard Peikoff

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

Moral Virtue

4 Lessons

6h 18m

Level

Advanced

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This course is an in-depth treatment of three important issues in Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy: Justice: What is Rand’s view of justice? How does it differ from conventional views, such as retributive and utilitarian justice? What...

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Ayn Rand

Originator of the Philosophy of Objectivism

What Is Capitalism?

1 Lesson

0h 47m

Level

Intermediate

Completed 0%

Available with Spanish subtitles! ¡Disponible con subtítulos en español! This 1967 lecture is Ayn Rand’s flagship talk on capitalism. In it she explains in depth what capitalism is, why it is often misunderstood and why it is...

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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: Ethics