Phoenix Objectivists 2nd June Meeting June 21, 2008

For our second meeting in June we will hear parts 1 & 2 of Will Thomas's excellent 6-part series called 'The Essence of Objectivism'.

Prepared from Thomas' lectures delivered at The Atlas Society's 2001 Summer Seminar, this series gets its title 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.'

Thomas's lectures provide a structured introduction to the key ideas of Objectivism.

The result 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.

Both CD's are will take an hour and fifteen minutes to listen to and we will discuss the points brought up in them after we are done.

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