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The Peikoff Podcasts

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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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SPOILER ALERT: Discusses the last event of The Fountainhead. At the end of The Fountainhead, is Roark counting on the rational judgment of the jury? Is a person always justified in believing that some rational remnant remains among men so as to stake one’s life on it?
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Date: September 27th, 2010
Duration: 01:54
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How can you support Israel, a nation whose essence is founded on a religion?
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Date: September 27th, 2010
Duration: 01:06
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In response to your claim that thinking is all that is needed to save the world, Nazi scientists used reason and thinking to almost develop the atomic bomb before the United States. What is your response to this?
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Date: September 27th, 2010
Duration: 03:31
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If the definition of self-sacrifice is to give away everything, but a value is a thing that you act to gain or keep, how can you both give away and keep something at the same time?
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Date: September 27th, 2010
Duration: 01:17
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Does responding to a sad song on a happy occasion go against Objectivism? Or looking at the painting The Scream, by Edvard Munch?
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Date: September 27th, 2010
Duration: 03:16
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