Interviewed by Israel’s Harry Kaufmann:
Related interview: “Rand, Kant, Israel v. Islamists, & Career integrity”—Stephen Hicks with Vinay Kolhatkar and Roger Bissell.
- * What if one has to choose between career advancement and one’s principles, e.g., getting a job an ideologically uniform and socially authoritarian university?
- * Is Christianity in principle the opposite of Objectivism, or are there distinct varieties of Christianity?
- * What do you think about the Israel vs. Hamas/Islamist conflict?
- * Does Rand’s principle of respecting human beings as ends in themselves agree with Kant’s?
- * Doesn’t Kant’s definition of art agree with or anticipate Rand’s?
- * Isn’t Locke’s epistemology, with its appeal to unknowables, no better or worse than Kant’s?