Advanced Seminars on OPAR - Part 1 (MP3 download) Interviews

Advanced Seminars on OPAR - Part 1 (MP3 download) InterviewsBy Leonard Peikoff Although the topics follow the organization of the book, these seminars (formerly titled "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand") are not a re reading of Leonard Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (OPAR), but are an advanced "chewing" of its ideas. Dr. Peikoff explains the reason for the precise wording of key formulations, defines striking new integrations among the philosophy's complex elements and, above all,

The father of philosophy: Thales

The answer involves distinguishing the metaphysical from the man-made and the self-evident from the inferred

A recurring cast of successful businessmen serves to illustrate these traits

Locke is writing to active minds

a philosophical murder mystery

This course was recorded at the 2008 Objectivist Summer Conference in Newport Beach

no one in Japan could ever again think of "war" without connecting it to death and failure

In the years following

Who Was John Galt

1968 at the Ford Hall Forum—which

but also the perfect balance they achieve among ideas

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