A Primer on Objectivism

Published by Peter Mains on November 12, 2009 at 10:44 PM

Ayn Rand's "intellectual heir" gives a brief talk on Ayn Rand and, in particular, her philosophy of objectivism. It's an interesting primer. His comment about emotion is, I think, quite profound. So often we focus on how our emotions can blind us and hinder our faculty of reason, and yet, emotion is a gift that, properly used, can also bolster reason.

I had no idea that Branden was a psychologist. Actually, I thought Ayn Rand's "intellectual heir" was Leonard Peikoff, so I suppose that I didn't think much about Branden at all. Ayn Rand week at Reason TV has given me all kinds of tidbits like that.