Requirements of Objective Journalism (MP3 download) Psychology

Requirements of Objective Journalism (MP3 download) PsychologyBy Peter Schwartz This is an amplification of the material discussed in the lecture Objectivity in Journalism. Students critically examine illuminating examples of journalism as a means of clarifying and applying the requirements of objectivity. (MP3 download; 90 min., with Q & A, 65 MB)

The Shackles of Self-Sacrifice

She is especially criticial of conservative intellectuals who regard politics and economics as amoral

Anthem and Collectivist Regression into Primitivism

philosopher Leonard Peikoff relates the ideas on which America was founded to the dominant ideological trends in modern American culture

irrational numbers and imaginary numbers

including where appropriate specific dialogue and physical

and thereby complete

automatization and context-priming

Can altruism be self-interested on the basis that it makes you happy

the laws of logic

Schwartz had to answer these questions in preparing to write his soon-to-be completed book on altruism

we engage why this matters: the power of a man’s sense of life in his personal pursuit of happiness