The Survival Value of Great (Though Philosophically False) Art (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and TerrorismBy Leonard Peikoff Dr. Peikoff demonstrates how a work of art serves a philosophic purpose even when its philosophic content is untrue by focusing on how art teaches man to use his consciousness. He examines how the four elements of literature, plot, characterization, theme and style, accomplish this. Art qua art, he argues, is essential to man's survival even when the art's theme is false. (MP3 download; 1 hr., 43 mins., with Q & A, 74 MB) This
Selectivity: How to determine what is essential
productive individuals to think
beginning with a five-and-dime store in a small Arkansas town
and champions of law's supremacy (such as Gaius
Such formulations represent the first form in which she grasped the point that she would later formulate by saying that values (and concepts) are objective rather than intrinsic or subjective
What do they seem to be planning for the future
the sensation-perception distinction
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Among its contents: an elucidation of the two political issues with which the practical fight for freedom should begin
according to the received wisdom
But it has now been superseded by my book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
she begins by indicating that she used to envy the liberals because “their leaders entered political campaigns armed not with worn-out bromides
