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Yaron Brook Speaks to a Wide Array of Audiences, Continued from Page 1 aynrand.org/impact Volume 19, Number 5, May 2013 Yaron Brook Speaks Objectivist Summer Conference Is Almost Here . to a Wide Array Register Today! of Audiences history to psychology, music and current events. In addition, there is plenty of time to his spring ARI executive socialize with others who share some of director Yaron Brook T your deepest values. It is common to see traveled all over the world. people enjoying conversations with other He participated in debates, attendees late into the night. Those in lectured on college campuses, attendance vary widely in age, occupation sat on panels and much more, and the number of years they have been discussing topics ranging familiar with Ayn Rand’s ideas. Some have from capitalism and economic only recently discovered Rand, while others history to law and taxes. have attended the Objectivist summer Throughout his travels, t’s not too late to register for the annual Objec- conference for more than two decades. Some are Dr. Brook advocated Ayn Rand’s ideas and their tivist summer conference, which takes place this students still deciding which career to pursue while application to current issues to thousands of peo- I year July 5–11 in Chicago at the Westin Michigan others are well established in business, academia ple, ranging from college students and academic Avenue Hotel. and other fields. Many attendees have communi- scholars to policy activists and congressional staff- The conference offers a unique opportunity cated to ARI in past years that they have met their ers. Below is a sampling of Dr. Brook’s speaking to meet other fans of Ayn Rand. No other event closest friends and even, for some, their significant events this spring, arranged by audience type. brings together so many fans, scholars and other others at the conference. (Read on page 3 about Students and Faculty supporters of Rand’s books and ideas. It’s the larg- why one attendee attends the conferences.) est gathering of Objectivists in the world. There is no event like the annual Objectivist • “Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for During the conference, you have the opportu- summer conference. Attendees have an unrivaled Freedom,” Second Language of Liberty Semi- nity to further your understanding of Ayn Rand’s opportunity to socialize, network and learn. nar, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 7 ideas by taking the many educational courses To register for the conference, visit objectivist • “Capitalism vs. The Mixed Economy: Which offered on topics that range from art, science and conferences.com. We hope to see you there! System Is Better?,” debate with Karl Smith, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, March 20 • “Capitalism Without Guilt,” Baruch College, New York City, March 14 The Value of ARI’s Support for an Academic Career • “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Interview with OAC Alumnus Gregory Salmieri Ideas Can End Big Government,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, March 13; University of California Davis, Davis, CA, GS: The combination of teaching and doing February 20 one’s own research. I’ve always enjoyed explaining • “Capitalism in Crisis,” debate with David things to people, so the idea of teaching always Schweickart, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, Objectivist Academic Center appealed to me—even as a child. I also always March 12 wanted to discover or create new things and to hrough their various programs, ARI and the communicate them to peers. I see an academic Scholars T Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholar- career as an integration of research and teaching: • “Beyond Politics,” colloquium, Liberty Fund, ship provide financial and intellectual support for a professor works on the frontier of a branch of Petrópolis, Brazil, April 4–7 promising students interested in academic careers. knowledge and uses the perspective gained by • “Issues in Philosophy of Law,” law workshop at The following interview is the fourth in a series doing so to effectively communicate the relevant Ayn Rand Center, Alexandria, VA, February 27 highlighting students in our programs who have ideas to students at different levels. now begun careers in academia. Impact: You’ve previously described yourself Policy Activists and Leaders The Anthem Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organi- as a “second-generation Objectivist academic.” • “Morality and the Marketplace,” Georgia Policy zation, separate from ARI, which provides funding Could you explain? Institute, Atlanta, GA, March 19 to colleges and universities whose academics are GS: Most Objectivist students study Rand’s • “Individual Rights,” congressional briefings, engaged in serious scholarship based on Objectiv- ideas separately from their academic work—either Washington, D.C., February 28 ism. To learn more, visit anthemfoundation.org. on their own or by taking classes from ARI. But • “Are We Too Big to Fail? What Did We Learn I was fortunate enough to have some Objectivist from the Global Financial Summit?,” panel Impact: What is your current position, professors within academia. As an undergraduate continued on page 4 Dr. Salmieri? at the College of New Jersey, I had courses with Gregory Salmieri: I am a Allan Gotthelf, so I learned Objectivism as an visiting scholar and lecturer in organic part of my undergraduate philosophy edu- philosophy at Boston Univer- cation, alongside more conventional subjects. sity, where I hold a Fellowship When I went to graduate school at the Uni- in Objectivity and Values versity of Pittsburgh, Jim Lennox was my adviser. sponsored by the Anthem Most of my work with Jim was focused on ancient Foundation for Objectivist philosophy, rather than on Objectivism as such, but Scholarship. having that shared context was very helpful. A few Impact: What attracted years into my graduate program, Allan moved to you most to an academic Pittsburgh on an Anthem Foundation fellowship, Yaron Brook discussing capitalism at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen career? continued on page 2 The Value of ARI’s Support for an Academic Career, continued from page 1 so I had both of them there to study with. Allan organized a number of workshops where Objectiv- ists and other philosophers met to discuss issues of mutual interest. Because of all of this, my study of and thinking about Objectivism was more a part of my academic life than I think it is for most Objec- tivist students. Impact: Speaking of Drs. Gotthelf and Len- Why Altruism Leads to virtue and value. nox, we understand you have some essays forth- “Do not confuse altruism with kindness, coming in a book they have edited. Would you tell Statism good will or respect for the rights of others. us about that? These are not primaries, but consequences, GS: I have contributed two essays to the In this section, Impact highlights writings from which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The collection Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge, Ayn Rand’s corpus for fans who wish to learn irreducible primary of altruism, the basic abso- which should be released this month. The book more about her philosophy, Objectivism. lute, is self-sacrifice—which means: self-im- is the first work about Objectivist epistemology molation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-de- geared to academic philosophers, and it is the sec- he Holocaust. Gulags. Secret Police. Mass struction—which means: the self as a standard ond volume in the Ayn Rand Society’s Philosophi- Toppression. Mass squalor. Mass starvation. of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.” cal Studies series. Allan and Jim are the editors of Mass death. In every country in which they’ve (Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern that series, with me as consulting editor. been erected, statist political systems such as World,” Philosophy: Who Needs It) The first part of the book is four essays, one communism, fascism, Nazism and socialism are The ethical principle of self-sacrifice each by Allan Gotthelf, Onkar Ghate [ARI vice responsible for the most horrific destruction in ultimately leads to statism in politics. “The president of Intellectual Leadership], Jim Lennox mankind’s history. So how do such systems ever secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and myself. Each essay elaborates on a different come into being? and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror issue in Rand’s epistemology, in a way that con- All political systems, explained Rand, are at the root of their anxiety, which all of their nects it to the contemporary literature. The second based on one’s views of morality: “The answers current irrationalities are intended to stave off part of the book is a series of exchanges with given by ethics determine how man should and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that other (mostly non-Objectivist) philosophers on the treat other men, and this determines the fourth Soviet Russia is the full, actual, literal, consis- subjects raised in the essays from the first part. branch of philosophy: politics, which defines tent embodiment of the morality of altruism, Most of the papers in the second part of the book the principles of a proper social system.” (Title that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that began as comments on papers from the first half, essay, Philosophy: Who Needs It) this is the only way altruism has to be or can delivered at workshops or conferences. The basic principle underlying all variations ever be practiced. If service and self-sacrifice Impact: What did you discuss in your of statism is the idea that “man’s life and work are a moral ideal, and if the ‘selfishness’ of chapters? belong to the state—to the society, to the group, human nature prevents men from leaping into GS: My essay in the first section is called the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state sacrificial furnaces, there is no reason—no “Conceptualization and Justification.” It shows may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the reason that a mystic moralist could name—why how Rand’s theory of concepts gives rise to a dis- sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, a dictator should not push them in at the point tinctive view of what entitles us to claim a conclu- collective good.” (“Introducing Objectivism,” of bayonets—for their own good, or the good of sion as knowledge.
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