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We will meet at 254 Herring Hall on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Most of the readings this semester will be from Tara Smith’s Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality, with some lectures by Ayn Rand, Harry Binswanger and Leonard Piekoff.
Sept 8 Objectivist Ethics
(Audio Lectures by Ayn Rand)
Sept 14 How to study Ayn Rand’s Ideas
(Audio Lecture by Harry Binswanger)
Sept 29 Viable Values – Morality’s Roots in Life
Oct 6 Viable Values – Morality’s Reward: Flourishing
Oct 20 “Objectivism Through Induction” Part I and Part II
(Audio Lecture by Leonard Peikoff)
Nov 3 Viable Values – Principled Egoism
Nov 17 “Conflicts” of Men’s Interests” (Audio & text in 3), “The Psychology of Altruism” (Audio lectures by Ayn Rand)
Viable Values – Pursuit of Self-Interest is not a Zero-Sum Game
Dec 1 “Why Should One Act on Principle”
(Audio Lecture by Leonard Peikoff)
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