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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.
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Should I tell my friends to read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged first?
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In past decades you seemed to believe that getting Objectivist philosophy into colleges was the top priority. But In your DIM course you seem to be suggesting that the most important thing is to develop a wide variety of Objectivist products in other cultural areas, such as literature, physics and education. Is this a dramatic shift in your thinking?
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(21 votes, average: 4.95 out of 5, rated)
If you berate someone for something you honestly think they did wrong, but later on you realize they didn’t actually do anything wrong, should you apologize, even if this would make you feel anxious?
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You said that since value judgments are the basis of emotion one cannot say that a negative emotion is right or wrong, but only that the underlying evaluation is so. What about envy?
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(8 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5, rated)
What is an Objectivist take on euthanasia?
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