Tara Smith & Yaron Discuss Individual Flourishing & The State of Liberty | Yaron Interviews
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2022-12-29

In this interview, Yaron sits down with Tara Smith to discuss individual flourishing, and the state of liberty. Professor Tara Smith’s teaches at UT Austin  Professor Smith's main interests concern the nature of values, virtues, and the requirements of objective law. Current research focuses on psychological dimensions of egoistic morality.   Photo of Tara by Carisa Kozicki Photography.  

Smith is the author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (2015); Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics – The Virtuous Egoist (2006); Viable Values – A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality (2000); and Moral Rights and Political Freedom (1995)

00:00 Intro
01:17 End of the year is good tine to contemplate
03:50 Finalizing the book on psycho-epistemology of egoism
08:00 Overview of future OCON talk on Objectivity in everyday living
16:21 Unseriousness of intellectuals
20:26 Ambition is not an end in itself
23:18 How do you balance work and other values?
27:18 Try to find work that you love 
36:30 Aging
45:57 Freedom of the press
1:04:29 Live Questions - see comment
1:53:18 Outro

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