So work has been pretty danged crazy this past month, not leaving me much time to put anything up on the blog.
Things are finally starting to calm down some, so hopefully I will have time to work up some new posts. I do have some ideas I hope to develop in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, here are a few videos from Yaron Brook, one of my favorite speakers.
Yaron Brook from Chicago Ideas Week on Vimeo.
In searching through Youtube for more presentations from Dr. Eric Daniels I found his presentation from the 21 Convention in Austin, TX. In it he describes the idea, and changes in this idea, of the self-made man in American history. Definitely worth the hour to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/v/RTXab_Fp3bM?autoplay=0One of my favorite discoveries since I began studying objectivism is historian Dr. Eric Daniels. I first encountered him via lectures on various aspects of American history. (Links to them below the video.)
This video is a presentation he did in 2010 on the morality of the free market at TEDxGreenvile.
Lectures by Dr. Eric Daniels:
A link to one of these videos came across my timeline today, so I thought I would share all three parts of the interview in one place. This is a slightly different topic than Yaron’s usual interviews and presentations, health and how Ayn Rand’s philosophy applies to it.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
A capture of Yaron Brook’s brief 20 minute talk today at The New York Meeting. He spoke and answered questions on inequality and why attempting to achieve equality of outcome or opportunity is both impossible and immoral. Was great to hear the great positive response from the audience.
http://www.youtube.com/v/VJaWNFWcUs4?autoplay=0 Captured with Microsoft’s Expression Encoder from the live presentation via LiveStream.A talk Yaron Brook gave on foreign policy at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala in August.
Great talk by Yaron Brook on politics, economics and more at the Heartland Institute in October.
http://www.youtube.com/v/lrCLv_PHF1A?autoplay=0Great presentation from Yaron Brook at this year’s Objectivist Summer Conference. I hope that at some point I will be able to attend one of these conferences.
http://www.youtube.com/v/nobSkuX72k8?autoplay=0This video is of a talk Yaron Brook gave just recently in Israel. I get a lot out of all of Yaron’s talks but I especially enjoyed this one as he spends a fair amount of time going over the basics of Ayn Rand’s philosophy in ways I had not heard him use before.
He starts with the fact that reality is what it is and not what we “wish” it would be (metaphysics) then moves on to the fact that reason is our way to understand the world and to survive in it (epistemology) which
Video is at the bottom of the post.
Last night my brother and I had the good fortune to attend the debate on money and power between Yaron Brook and Hederick Smith at the Modern Theater of Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
When we first arrived, over an hour before the event was scheduled to start, the line was already forming. Judging from the literature being handed out to those in line opposing the Citizens United decision, I felt we were going to be somewhat outnumbered and, as my brother