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Advanced Seminars on Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

by Dr. Leonard Peikoff

15 lectures, 25.5 hours
Delivered and recorded 1990-91
These lectures are offered here with permission from Dr. Leonard Peikoff, granted to Carl Barney and Prometheus Foundation on April 20, 2020.

In this course, Dr. Peikoff presented material from his then-new book, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. The manuscript had its earliest roots in Peikoff’s comprehensive 1976 lecture course on Objectivism. As he worked on the material for publication, he discovered new connections and implications of major ideas in the philosophy as well as new insights on its integrated, hierarchical structure. Peikoff used these seminars to discuss what he learned in the process and to demonstrate how it would allow students of Objectivism to gain a new understanding of the philosophy.

Note: The course audio may contain tape hiss, room noise, volume level inconsistencies, and other artifacts present in the original recordings.

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Lecture 5

Note: Around 1:51:50 a small portion of audio was lost due to technical difficulties. At this point in the live lecture, just after the words "if you turn to 133," Dr. Peikoff reiterated that concept formation, although a human method that omits measurements, does not create "cognitive distortions."