Atlas Intellectuals

Thomas Kuhn, *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions* [Objectivity course]

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In this unit of the Objectivity course we feature Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he questions whether science is or can be an objective process based upon observational facts that makes progress toward truth. Thomas Kuhn was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a […]

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Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of our course on Objectivity we feature Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. Rand was world-famous as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when a collection of essays entitled The Virtue of Selfishness was published in 1964. In the opening essay, Rand presents a sustained argument for her ethic of rational self-interest. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity.

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Draw My Life: Reason [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Objectivity we feature our means to understand reality, Reason. View the video short, Draw My Life: Reason. What is your most important device? It’s not made of silicon, it’s not your smartphone or your laptop. It’s made of neurons and lies between your ears — your

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Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”. Jeffrey

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Stephen Hicks, “The Stain of Slavery” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s Open College Podcast on “The Stain of Slavery.” Topics: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went

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Frederick Douglass, “To My Old Master” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his

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William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we cover the great William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British statesman, Anglican, and the leading force behind the 1807 abolition of the slave trade and the 1833 abolition of slavery in Great Britain. “The Slave Trade is the

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Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s analysis of slavery’s history: Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer. The first two points: Before Columbus’s Atlantic crossing, slavery had long been practiced by every major culture in the world, with the likely exception of Australia. Virtually no individuals known to

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