Next Meeting: September 8th from 6:00 - 7:30PM

In the next meeting we will be discussing Ayn Rand's Speech to the graduates of West Point entitled: Philosophy: Who Needs it?

Many people think of philosophy as a study solely in the purview of intellectuals who wear robes and sit in ivory towers—as superfluous to the everyday life of most men. Is this true? In this meeting we will discuss whether you need philosophy and whether it can benefit your life, regardless of whether you plan to be an academic or a salesman.

Having established why we all need philosophy, we will briefly discuss Ayn Rand’s own philosophy, Objectivism, which she presented as a “philosophy for living a good life.”

“A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown.”
—Ayn Rand , “Philosophy: Who Needs It.”

Materials to be Discussed:

1) Philosophy: Who Needs it?

*Full text of the Essay is online here: http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rand.html

*Or listen to it online here: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ar_pwni

2) Introducing Objectivism

*Text found here: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro

*Audio found here: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ar_introducing

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