Why Should One Act on Principle? (MP3 download) About Ayn Rand's Works

Why Should One Act on Principle? (MP3 download) About Ayn Rand's WorksBy Leonard Peikoff Ours is an age of "complexity worship" says Leonard Peikoff in this lecture on the nature and necessity of principles. Rejecting the spurious charge of "simplicticism," he shows how today's pragmatism reduces man to the perceptual level i. e., to the state of an animal. This is an invaluable lecture on the principle behind the principles. (1988) (MP3 download; 91 min., with Q & A, 65. 62 MB)

Bernstein accomplishes all of this in a concise

and “Selfishness as a Virtue” is 19 minutes

This course is intended for non-experts

among other things

friends or in some public forum

As a result

Introduction to Deductive Reasoning

Rand identifies the causes of spiraling prices

- Narrative versus Dramatization

emotions and actions

It is a device that allows its originators to put over disastrously erroneous ideas

it takes a psychological toll on us