Phoenix Objectivists 2nd July Meeting July 31, 2008

For our second July meeting we will listen to part 2 of a six-part series titled: The Essence of Objectivism.

Prepared from William Thomas's lectures delivered at The Objectivist Center's 2001 Summer Seminar, the series title is taken from Ayn Rand's famous summary in the appendix to Atlas Shrugged: My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

This series provides a structured introduction to the key ideas of Objectivism based on Ms. Rand's summary, while at the same time it is a thought-provoking six-lecture CD course that is intended for those who are new to Rand's work or have enjoyed her novels but are not deeply familiar with her philosophy.

Here you will see how Rand's ideas fit together, how her philosophy is illustrated both in her fiction and in real life, and how Objectivism contrasts with philosophic and religious views that pervade our culture today.

The total time to listen to the lecture will be an hour and after listening to it we will discuss the issues brought up.

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