Ayn Rand Hero: Meta-Ethics with John Yokela and Brishon Martin – Ego As Organism


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Dec 11 2018 137 mins   9

Join Mark Michael Lewis, John Yokela and Brishon Martin on an epic journey into the land of meta-ethics and the philosophy of Ayn Rand.


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4:00 how do we build an epistemology that’s based in ethics?

6:00 Rand’s idea of an evolving definition of a concept – knowledge is contextual

9:00 Rand’s model of the self from 3 different frameworks

12:00 the ‘biological self’ and Rand’s definition of the ‘psychological self’

15:00 Aristotle’s perspective on ‘flourishing’

16:00 flourishing vs happiness

20:00 the cycle of the self maintaining the self

32:00 what does Ayn Rand mean when she speaks about the ‘self’?

24:00 insanity as psychological death

26:00 shifting how we think about Rand’s work as we refine what she means by ‘self’

27:00 Rand’s fiction vs her nonfiction

29:00 The Fountainhead & Howard Roark

30:00 how Rand’s characters make Heroic Choices

33:00 integrating Rand’s concepts via her novels

34:00 contradictions between Rand’s novels and her nonfiction work

38:00 what is the difference between ‘rational’ and ‘objective’?

40:00 Terrence Deakin

44:00 Leanard Peikoff

50:00 egoism vs egotism

58:00 the false self

1:07:00 a central critique of Ayn Rand

1:08:00 how we can reintegrate emotions into morality without losing objectivity

1:15:00 Brishon’s story

1:32:00 resolving the problem between Moral Intuitionists and Objectivists

1:50:00 the ‘Big 5’

1:54:00 AI might replace our physical work – but we need humans to make art

2:05:00 Existentialism and meaning


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