These lectures which cover 500 years, from the rediscovery of Aristotle to the end of the Renaissance demonstrate the truth of this statement. Dr. Mayhew concludes with a consideration of the lessons Aristotle's influence on the Renaissance has for modern Aristotelians fighting, in a hostile culture, for Objectivism. Scott McConnell Mr. McConnell reads extracts and plays audio and video excerpts of interviews selected from the more than 160 he has conducted with Ayn Rand's friends, family, and associates. The interviews reveal Ayn Rand in a variety of relationships and contexts. Interviewees include a famous photographer, West Point professors, media interviewers, a publishing-house editor, and friends from the later part of her life.
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Given the scope and success of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, it seems inconceivable that it would come under attack, let under suffer almost total philosophical repudiation. Yet that is what is happening today and this lecture explains why. Dr. Ridpath looks at the seeds of this change within some of the Enlightenment figures themselves, and then discusses the overt repudiation led by thinkers like Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. This lecture provides a better understanding of the evolution of our own paradoxical age, where embattled islands of Enlightenment thought flourish, while surrounded by a rising tide of anti-Enlightenment nihilism. Peter Schwartz Altruism is the prevailing morality throughout the world.