Free Will, Free Speech, Free Borders, Freedom in the Middle East (MP3 download) Healthcare

Free Will, Free Speech, Free Borders, Freedom in the Middle East (MP3 download) HealthcareBy Yaron Brook, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo and Steve Simpson Philosophy is often disparaged as an ivory tower pursuit that makes no difference in the real world. But if you know how to look, you can see its influence everywhere. This recording includes three short talks on free will and its applications: Steve Simpson, director of Legal Studies at the Ayn Rand Institute, explores how today's widespread acceptance of determinism has made many people

motivational opening for a talk

Not only does she present new conceptions of virtues such as honesty

the war on drugs

Binswanger applies the trichotomy of intrinsic-subjective-objective to identify three corresponding schools of thought on concepts

- The Goal of My Writing

Among its contents: an elucidation of the two political issues with which the practical fight for freedom should begin

Mayhew analyzes Rand's appearance before HUAC and discusses the response to her much-maligned testimony

Rand recounts incidents of official harassment for tax evasion against  a prominent Swedish film director and an actress

Mayhew discusses the novel’s theme from the perspective of its formulation in Ayn Rand’s preface to the 1959 edition: “Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life—using the word ‘sanctity’ not in a mystical sense

By John Ridpath

12 minutes

This lecture was recorded at the Objectivist Summer Conference 2004 in Wintergreen