“Man’s Rights” | Ayn Rand | *Philosophers, Explained* series by Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great?

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour. In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand’s essay on individual rights. Ayn Rand (1905-1982) migrated from the Soviet Union to the United States as a young woman. She wrote four novels, including The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In the course of writing these novels, she developed her rational, realist philosophy which she named Objectivism.

Episodes: The full playlist.

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

“Man’s Rights” | Ayn Rand | Philosophers, Explained series by Professor Stephen Hicks

Episodes: The full playlist.

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