| 2002 Summer Seminar |
—Diana Mertz Hsieh
Course Description:
Ayn Rand’s novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged offer a unique and inspiring moral vision, but translating those ideals into daily life can be a challenge. Through a mixture of lecture and discussion, Diana Hsieh will survey the basic principles of Objectivism, from metaphysics to politics. She will focus on both the theory and practice of the philosophy, contrasting it with common religious and cultural views. Ideas discussed in these six sessions will include reason as the only means to knowledge, the integration of mind and body, the choice to think or not, emotions as automatic value judgments, intrinsic-objective-subjective distinction, life as the standard of value, the major virtues, the trader principle, capitalism, and much more. Ms. Hsieh is an independent writer and lecturer on philosophy and technology.
Schedule: All Days, 8:30:00 AM
Track: Philosophy