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The Forgotten Essentials of Jefferson's Philosophy

"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....

Jun 23, 2010
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ديفيد إن ماير
10 Mins
Choosing Life

The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....

Jun 22, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
10 Mins
The Normality of Freedom

In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable

Jun 22, 2010
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تيموثي سانديفور
10 Mins
Rand and Objectivity

Ayn Rand was an unusually creative philosopher. In every major branch of philosophy, from metaphysics to aesthetics, she had original...

Jun 22, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
5 Mins
What Kant Wrought

My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most

Jun 22, 2010
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دكتوراه ستيفن هيكيس
6 Mins
Self Help: Egotists vs. Egoists

I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...

Jun 18, 2010
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9 mins
Why Should One Act on Principle?

A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....

Jun 18, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism

Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter

Jun 16, 2010
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9 Mins
The Postmodern Assault on Reason

I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...

Jun 16, 2010
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10 Mins
What is the Objectivist Position in Morality (Ethics)?

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...

Jun 15, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
What is the Objectivist Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)?

Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means

Jun 15, 2010
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ويليام توماس
3 Mins
What is Objectivism?

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive

Jun 14, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
2 Mins
Is Religion Compatible with Objectivism?

Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies

Jun 14, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
4 Mins
What is Philosophy?

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..

Jun 14, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
3 Mins
Nationalism: Will It Help a Country Thrive?

Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....

Jun 11, 2010
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ويليام توماس
4 Mins
Free Speech and Postmodernism

In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in

Jun 11, 2010
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دكتوراه ستيفن هيكيس
7 Mins
TAS vs. ARI: A Question of Objectivity and Independence

The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......

Jun 10, 2010
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ويليام توماس
4 Mins
Understanding Force and Fraud

An inquiry into fraud (or indeed into direct physical coercion) must begin with an inquiry into rights. For neither fraud nor coercion can

May 21, 2010
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5 Mins
Is There a Right to Health Care?

Bill Clinton ran for president last year by attacking the 1980s as a "decade of greed" —attacking the leveraged buyouts and hostile takeover

May 12, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
10 Mins
Altruism and Capitalism

The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...

May 12, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
10 Mins

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