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David Kelley Debates John Mackey

What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...

Feb 11, 2013
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2 Mins
The Moral Tradition: The Concept of Loyalty

Notice, first, that the objects of loyalty are human and institutional. One is loyal to a friend, an organization, a spouse, a country...

Jan 13, 2013
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4 Mins
Objectivism, Public Policy, and Entrepreneurship

In this talk, delivered at the 2012 Atlas Summit, Professor Stephen Hicks presents an Objectivist perspective on entrepreneurship and

Dec 19, 2012
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
2 Mins
The Problem With "Selfishness"

Atlas Summit 2012 -- In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand exhorted readers to put the word "selfishness" to its true and proper

Dec 13, 2012
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Marsha Enright
1 Min
Yes, Mr. President, Ayn Rand Is for Teens -- and Everyone Else

Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we..

Oct 26, 2012
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Alexander R. Cohen
4 Mins
Classic Kelley treatise now republished online

We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Percept

Sep 26, 2012
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2 Mins
Review: Moral Rights and Political Freedom

If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his

Jan 27, 2012
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Ayn Rand Through Two Lenses

How do you like your Objectivism? Liberal: freshly phrased (but loosely represented), full of new connections, etc?

Jan 25, 2012
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10 mins
Academic Interpretations of Ayn Rand

Objectivists have long hoped to see a high-quality academic journal focusing on Objectivism. Last month's publication of The Journal of Ayn

Jan 25, 2012
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10 Mins
Why Man Needs Art

Art is widely thought of as indefinable, inherently subjective, and disconnected from any practical need or concern. Many modern thinkers

Jan 25, 2012
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David Kelley Ph.D
7 Mins
A Humanist Ethics of Pride

BOOK REVIEW : Richard Taylor, Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press, 1996)

Jan 25, 2012
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5 Mins
Myth: Ayn Rand was an Elitist

The heroes of Ayn Rand’s fiction are great achievers, like Howard Roark, the superlative architect in The Fountainhead, and John Galt, the b

Dec 19, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 mins
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

It is very difficult, if one does not read extensively in seventeenth and eighteenth century thought, to understand quite how speculative

Nov 18, 2011
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Alan Charles Kors
10 Mins
Completing Rand's Literary Theory

Ayn Rand was that most delightful of philosophers—the philosopher who proposes large and interesting theories, and allows them to remain...

Sep 28, 2011
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Stephen Cox
10 Mins
I Can and I Will

That pithy advice, usually attributed to Henry Ford, expresses one of the most frequent themes in the vast literature of self-improvement...

Sep 1, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Pride: Living as a Self-Made Soul

In this webinar, recorded on June 29, 2011, William R Thomas discusses pride as "the first and last of the virtues." Pride connects

Aug 29, 2011
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2 Mins
The Importance of Blacklisting

August 30, 2002 -- Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and libertarianism distinguishes between

May 30, 2011
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8 Mins
The Virtue of Rationality

Are you rational? Or do you yield often to vices such as emotionalism, bias, and dogmatism? On October 21st, 2010, William R Thomas lead an

May 16, 2011
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1 Mins
Justice: Treating Others Objectively

Judge others, and prepare to be judged. We live in society, but how can we deal with others in a way that promotes rational, productive

May 16, 2011
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2 Mins
Myth: Ayn Rand Wasn't a Serious Philosopher

On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...

May 2, 2011
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William Thomas

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