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Dr. Peikoff answers questions about Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. His podcasts focus on human relationships, career, moral issues – not technical philosophy or practical politics.
The podcasts are available by single questions or as full episodes.
I often hear and read the term “rational egoism,” but isn’t that term redundant? Is there such a thing as irrational egoism?
(16 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5, rated)
(16 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5, rated)
You have said in a recent podcast that one of the most enjoyable decades of your life was the 50’s, the OPAR years, when you still had the drive of youth combined with the maturity of age, but you’ve also said that the DIM book is your best. How can the best not be the most enjoyable?
(18 votes, average: 4.78 out of 5, rated)
(18 votes, average: 4.78 out of 5, rated)
If birth control were never invented would sex still be seen as one of the greatest values of the human experience, to be celebrated regularly?
(11 votes, average: 4.91 out of 5, rated)
(11 votes, average: 4.91 out of 5, rated)
Do you want to live forever?
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5, rated)
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5, rated)
One of my teachers gave me an A in a course when I knew I should have received a high B. I feel I hadn’t earned that A. Should I feel guilty about this grade?
(9 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)
(9 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)