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 Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Good Stuff and Awesome Stuff

By Diana Hsieh @ 7:05 AM

Registered users of the Ayn Rand Institutes's web site now have access to...
The Ayn Rand Multimedia Library

Thanks to an exclusive permission generously granted by the Estate of Ayn Rand, aynrand.org is now able to offer its registered users, free of charge, an expansive collection of Ayn Rand audio and video recordings. This unprecedented selection includes lectures, interviews, and the complete series of Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum lectures.

The ARI Lecture Series: The Complete Video Collection

On September 12, 2002, Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, inaugurated the ARI Lecture Series before a crowd of 600 with a lecture titled "9/11--One Year Later: Why America Is Losing the War!" Since then ARI speakers have delivered about six free public talks per year on topics ranging from ethics to foreign policy to history. As a registered user of aynrand.org, you now have access to the lecture portion of each of these talks. A complete selection of full-length video and audio recordings, including the Q-&-A sessions that followed, is available at the Ayn Rand Bookstore.
The second is cool, but the first is simply awesome. I've listened to most of the recordings of Ayn Rand already. I particularly enjoyed the Ford Hall Forum lectures, for the reasons explained here. Even those well familiar with the in-print Objectivist corpus will likely find interesting tidbits to tweak their brains in these recordings. And, as I said about the Ford Hall Forum lectures, "those who wish for some small first-hand glimpse of the real Ayn Rand, undistorted by ax-grinding critics, will find these lectures to be an invaluable treasure."

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 6:40:06 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: John Powers
E-mail: johnpowers[[AT]]mac{{DOT}}com

Wow! So many Ayn Rand lectures are offered free of charge. I know what I will be doing for the next few weeks.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 12:57:45 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Paula
E-mail: paula_hall(at)verizon.net

I am currently listening to "Interview with Ayn Rand," which is great. Rand mentioned Aquinas, so while listening I decided to go to the Aquinas Wiki -- which mentions Rand! Unfortunately, the reference is VERY misleading, in my view:

"The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism. Ayn Rand "always firmly insisted that Aristotle was the greatest [philosopher] and that Thomas Aquinas was the second greatest."[8] Philosophically, his most important and enduring work is the Summa Theologica, in which he expounds his systematic theology."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas#Philosophy>

This seems to imply that Rand approved of the religious side of Aquinas, which of course is nonsense? Anyone out there a Wiki editor who is willing to change this?

Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 9:22:58 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Steve D'Ippolito

I did actually purchase the ARI lecture series--I think I've watched about half of them by now. Plenty of blizzardy weather this last winter to put me in front of the tube. (The lecture series has been out for a few months, actually, and I ordered it with the Fountainhead essays.)

Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:10:28 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Sascha Settegast
E-mail: sascha.settegast(at)gmx.de
URL: http://heroicdreams.wordpress.com

I already listened to some of the lectures, and it is simply amazing to hear Ayn Rand speak in person! It's truly generous of the Estate to make this possible.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 14:39:57 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: maunat

Dear Diana,
I have a question. Leonard Peikoff's course 'The DIM Hypothesis' is not yet available for free, isn't?
Thank you.

MN

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