The first class in this course will be a week from now, Tuesday, February 28, from 8:00 to 9:00 PM. The day before, I’ll send out a note with a Zoom link for paid subscribers. For those who can’t attend the class live, I’ll post the audio and video the next day.
See my previous post for suggested readings for the first class. Below, I will post some further reading for the second class.
There are still a number of people on this list who signed up for the free version, so if you haven’t paid, you won’t get access to the course, and you will run into a paywall before you get the suggested readings. For those people, here’s one last quick sales pitch.
There’s going to be a lot of great material here. In addition to providing a new and illuminating way to understand Ayn Rand’s ideas, I’m excited about the opportunity to fill in some details that to my knowledge haven’t been widely discussed or delved into before—starting with Ayn Rand’s distinctive view of causation and in later lectures illuminating key differences between Ayn Rand’s views and the conventional views on human nature, individual rights, the “social contract,” and property rights. I’ll also have some interesting things to say about how the concept of Objectivism as a philosophy of causation is invaluable in helping you apply the philosophy to the concrete problems and issues of your life.
So sign up now.
Now to the next round of suggested readings. I will be summarizing all of these passages in class, so you don’t have to read them, but you will get more out of the classes if you come to them primed.
These suggestions are for the second class, where we go into some depth about the concept of causation and what it even means in the first place. So I’m giving you about three weeks of lead time.