My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir (MP3 download) Psychology

My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir (MP3 download) PsychologyBy Leonard Peikoff In 1951, when he was just a teenager, Leonard Peikoff visited Ayn Rand in her home, at her invitation. This was the beginning of a friendship and professional association that would last until Rands death in 1982. In this 1987 lecture delivered at Bostons Ford Hall Forum, Peikoff offers personal insights into the real Ayn Randthe thinker, the artist, the teacher, the passionate valuer of the best within man. Ayn Rand was uniqueas a

they wanted to understand the causes of great events in rational terms

a reactionary religious movement threatened to interrupt the rebirth of reason in the Renaissance

Independence as a Primary Orientation to Reality

most philosophical values

its nature as a romantic novel

non-fiction presentation of her ethics—on her notes for a post-Atlas novel titled To Loren Dieterling

epistemological field of study

From her love for her husband

It proclaims the same explosive philosophy

the audio is 8 hours and 27 minutes long

animal rights

including philosophy