Here’s my two-minute trailer for my livestream lecture series starting tomorrow, June 20: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their […]
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Here’s the two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and
Nietzsche on “philosophers” of reason. (They’re liars.) Read More »
Two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and different — and
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Nietzsche vs. Rand Join me in this 3-session course “Nietzsche vs. Rand on Altruism and Egoism,” co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and different
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A quick announcement, with more information forthcoming: two livestream talks and a Q&A at thinkspot over three Saturdays. (The image is for my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand”: Audio version in [mp3] or at [YouTube] [101 minutes]. The original print essay [pdf] published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.
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Introductions by Dr. Karol Nawroki and Dr. Marek Szymaniak, and a summary by Dr. Piotr Kostylo. Translated by Izabela Kłodzińska. Published by the Museum of World War II in Gdańsk, Poland. Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for claiming that “God is dead” — and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed Nietzsche as
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Excellent essay by Professor C. Bradley Thompson diagnosing prominent strains of the weird left and the sometimes-weirder right, both deeply anti-liberal, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-American-founding. Link. the principles and institutions of the American Founding are now under assault from the nattering nabobs of both the progressive Left and the reactionary Right. These two ideological antipodes share
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Our 42-minute conversation, with audience questions along the way, about the significance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work. Recorded April 2020. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis. “How Nietzsche Predicted the Postmodernists.” My other posts and publications on Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal published his extended review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in December 2019. I like this part: “His writing talent is praiseworthy: clarity, historical competency, willingness to engage opponents with charity. There are occasions throughout the listening of his audiobook where one is moved by way of his descriptions of Nietzschean philosophy, a
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[Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below:] Grégoire Canlorbe: Both Rand and Nietzsche vehemently despise the ancestral notion of “Common Good”, dating back at least to Aristotle. Nietzsche eloquently and provocatively sums up his grievances against it in paragraph 43
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