Phoenix Objectivists 2nd March meeting March 27, 2008

For our last meeting at Bookmans we will watch more videotaped of interviews of Ayn Rand.

In the first video, Ayn Rand is interviewed by T.V. talk show host Phil Donahue in which he questions Ayn Rand about a variety of philosophical and political issues. Like in the first interview we watched, Ms. Rand demolishes his conventional wisdom while fielding tough questions from the show audience.

The next interview we will watch is when Ms. Rand is interviewed by Mike Wallace. This interview was conducted during the 1950's and what is so marvelous about this interview is the way Ms. Rand explains her radical philosophy to Mike Wallace with all of her grace and candor.
Finally, we will watch an interview of Ayn Rand done for University of Michigan television which was shown once and then vaulted. In this interview, Ms. Rand discusses the finer points of Objectivism while discussing why altruism is evil, why rational self-interest is the only moral standard by which man should live and much, much more!

The total time to watch the videos will be a little over an hour and a half and we will discuss the points each interview brings up after finishing.

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