Philosophy
Announcements, Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
The Source and Nature of Rights, Part IV
TOS Admin January 21, 2010
Part four of Craig Biddle’s six-hour seminar The Source and Nature of Rights has been posted to UFM’s website and is accessible for free. In this section, Mr. Biddle concludes his discussion of Ayn Rand’s ethics and theory of rights.
Philosophy, Science & Technology
The Towering Contradiction
Wendell Hoenir January 18, 2010
[caption id="attachment_33190" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Petter Palander[/caption] The beginning of the new year and decade bore witness to the opening of the world's newest tallest building: the Burj Dubai in the UAE. Like many other commentators, Landon Thomas of the New York Times noted the dire economic situation Dubai faces…
Announcements, Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
The Source and Nature of Rights, Part III
TOS Admin January 15, 2010
Part three of Craig Biddle’s six-hour seminar The Source and Nature of Rights has been posted to UFM’s website and is accessible for free. In this section, Mr. Biddle continues his discussion of Ayn Rand’s ethics and theory of rights.
Philosophy, Reviews
Review: Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh
Andrew Lewis November 20, 2009
Andrew Lewis reviews Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh.
Philosophy
Objective Moral Values: Basic Human Needs
Craig Biddle November 20, 2009
Zeros in on the nature of objective, life-serving values; demonstrates that man’s most fundamental value is his faculty of reason; and shows that both physical survival and spiritual health require keeping one’s thinking tied to reality (via reason) so that one’s ideas, values, actions, and emotions correspond to reality, too.
Philosophy
Letters and Replies, Winter 2009–2010
Craig Biddle answers a letter regarding “the status of the choice to live.”
History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
The Berlin Wall and the Meaning of its Fall
Craig Biddle November 10, 2009
Here’s a superb 2-part discussion by Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate about the history of the Berlin Wall and the significance of its fall. http://www.youtube.com/v/Q1bQg3kk0Yg http://www.youtube.com/v/DofVfn7Dg7U
Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Praying Won't Make It So
Stella Daily Zawistowski November 5, 2009
I'm a second-year student in the Objectivist Academic Center, and the class is currently working through the difference between the metaphysically given (such as the law of gravity) and the man-made (such as traffic laws). The man-made is the result of choice, and as such is subject to praise or…
Announcements, Philosophy
Rationally Selfish Radio with Dr. Diana Hsieh
Craig Biddle September 27, 2009
I’d like to recommend a new podcast program called Rationally Selfish Radio, hosted by Dr. Diana Hsieh. Dr. Hsieh posts two podcasts per week, discussing a broad spectrum of topics—from how an introvert can meet people, to the conditions under which a person can morally accept an inheritance, to the…
Philosophy
How Morality is Grounded in Reality
Craig Biddle August 20, 2009
Presents Ayn Rand’s solution to the so-called “is–ought” problem and shows how she identified the requirements of man’s life as the objective standard of moral value.