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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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What do you think of the campaign to add “None of the above” as one of the choices on the ballot, with the idea that if more than 50 percent of the voters choose it, then the candidates are not allowed to run?
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Date: August 18th, 2008
Duration: 01:09
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You’ve said that philosophy deals with fundamental issues which can be answered by men at anytime and any state of knowledge’ yet Ayn Rand said herself that her idea, that man’s means of survival is reason, could not have been reached prior to the Industrial Revolution. How do you reconcile this?'”
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Date: August 18th, 2008
Duration: 02:11
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What moral incentive does a terminally ill patient have to continue to respect the rights of other individuals?
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Date: August 18th, 2008
Duration: 03:12
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Should we, who are alive as a consequence of evil, wish not to have been born because of the evil that made our birth possible?
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Date: August 18th, 2008
Duration: 03:54
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Do you disagree with Aristotle’s ‘Doctrine of the Mean’?
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Date: August 18th, 2008
Duration: 03:06
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