Together we talk about the life, writing and philosophy of Ayn Rand. Diving into how objectivism looks as a philosophy and how it can change people's lives.
Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
2:41 - Who is Yaron Brook?
4:53 - Your Life is Yours!
7:19 - Collectivism
11:42 - Ayn Rand and Her Work
20:45 - Objectivism
25:59 - Objectivism (over Individualism, Reason-ism & Rationalism)
28:11 - Reason
31:59 - Selfishness
39:05 - Facts, Reason, Individualism & a Morality of Self-interest
48:20 - Reading Ayn Rand
51:15 - Heroic Language within Rand's Work
54:22 - Masculinity and Femininity within Rand's Work
58:40 - Objectivism and Facing Death
1:02:29 - Rand's disappointment with the US
1:05:46 - Why Objectivism is antithetical to Faith
1:15:11 - This is it, so take it seriously!
1:20:33 - Outro
Interview conducted by Sam Devis, host of When Belief Dies. Published on May 12, 2023. For more content by Sam Devis, see
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Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government,
Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and
In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.
