Philosophy For Flourishing

Mitchell Broderick and Tim Chermak join me to discuss their new company and how they’re using it to both promote rational philosophy and upend an industry.

This show is all about principles and practices for living the best, most fulfilling life possible, so in this episode, I figured I’d dig into the ideas of a thinker who identified a novel approach to philosophy, the goal of which is to help people flourish. That philosopher is Ayn Rand, and her Objectivist ethics begins with observations of the facts of human life (and life in general) to define a reality-based approach to living one’s best life. Enjoy! And as always, leave me your questions in the comments section—I’m happy to try to answer them.

During WWII, while American forces battled dictatorial regimes overseas, three writers back home were unleashing a full-scale assault on the ideas at the very base of tyranny. Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine, Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, all published in 1943, launched the modern American liberty movement. These women, once described as “the three furies of modern libertarianism,” have been the subjects of separate biographies. But Freedom’s Furies by Timothy Sandefur is the first book-length exploration of their relationships and the context surrounding their 1943 books. On February 2—Rand’s birthday—Sandefur I discussed his book and the enduring importance of these three authors.

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Philosopher, author, and teacher Dr. Andrew Bernstein joins Jon to discuss the abysmal state of American education and what parents and educators can do about it.

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Philosopher and psychotherapist Jason Stotts returns to discuss the nature of sex and sexual attraction, common misconceptions and errors related to sexuality, and how to improve one’s sex life and relationships. #Objectivism #sex #psychology # #objectivity #AynRand #philosophy #flourishing #sexualethics #emotions 📜 ALSO CHECK OUT: Free ebook: Introduction to Ayn Rand’s Objectivism: https://bit.ly/3eALZFD Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics, by Jason Stotts: https://amzn.to/37G9ugM Learn more about our life-changing conference 👉https://objectivestandard.org/tos-con 📖 CONFERENCE: TOS-Con 2022: Philosophy for Freedom and Flourishing ➔ https://objectivestandard.org/tos-con 🔗 LINKS: Check out our website ➔ https://objectivestandard.org/ Follow us on Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/objectivest... Follow us on Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/objectivesta... Follow us on Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/ObjStdInstitute Follow us on LinkedIn ➔ https://www.linkedin.com/company/obje... 📧 CONTACT: jon@objectivestandard.org

Why is intellectual life in America dominated by ideologues that seem disconnected from reality? How can each of us takes steps toward reviving civil discourse? Dr. Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian)—author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and How to Have Impossible Conversations—joins Hersey for a discussion of how and why he spearheaded the “street epistemology” movement and lessons learned on communicating across deep divides.

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Our emotions are our means of experiencing our values, so it’s extraordinarily important to grasp why we feel the way we do and how to change it when our emotional lives are just not ideal. In this conversation, psychotherapist and philosopher Jason Stotts shares his conceptual framework for navigating the human emotional landscape. Stotts, author of Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics, also shares tips and techniques for using his sentiments-based framework to improve your life.

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Our emotions are our means of experiencing our values, so it’s extraordinarily important to grasp why we feel the way we do and how to change it when our emotional lives are just not ideal. In this conversation, psychotherapist and philosopher Jason Stotts shares his conceptual framework for navigating the human emotional landscape. Stotts, author of Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics, also shares tips and techniques for using his sentiments-based framework to improve your life.

#Objectivism #scoutmindset #psychology # #objectivity #AynRand #philosophy #flourishing #sex #sexuality #emotions

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Thomas Reid, founder of the philosophic school of common-sense realism, substantially refuted the skeptics of his time (e.g., George Berkely and David Hume) by defending the validity of sense perception and the efficacy of man’s mind. Although religious, Reid argued that self-interest plays an important role in ethics, that our fundamental means of achieving our life-serving values is our reasoning mind, and that doing so requires considering the entirety of our lives and the full context of our knowledge. Jon Hersey compares and contrasts various aspects of Reid’s and Ayn Rand’s ideas, showing how both thinkers worked toward creating a rational, observation-based philosophy for flourishing.

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Micaela Richmond—of “In Bloom: A Pro-Humanity Podcast”—interviews Jon Hersey about religion, atheism, Objectivism, consciousness, concepts, liberty, history, and more. 

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Ayn Rand was one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, and her works continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year. A 1998 poll conducted by Modern Library ranked Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the first and second greatest novels of the century, with Rand’s Anthem and We the Living coming in at seven and eight. Reader polls have also ranked Atlas as the most influential book in the world behind only the Bible. Yet Rand is often misunderstood, even vilified.

In this talk, Jon Hersey sheds light on Rand’s philosophy by placing it within the context of intellectual history, comparing and contrasting aspects of Objectivism with ideas from a handful of important thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant and Ludwig von Mises. Join Hersey on a tour through the history of ideas for a new perspective on Ayn Rand’s philosophy and its historical importance.

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0:00 Introduction

10:54 The Sophist’s philosophy of "might makes right"

12:39 Plato's justification for a Philosopher King

20:45 Aristotle's philosophy of this world

26:59 John Locke's influence on the Founding Fathers

28:32 Immanuel Kant's ideas of duty and the mind shaping reality

42:10 Ayn Rand's revival of the Enlightenment

49:15 Q&A

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Jackson Upmann asks Jon his questions on philosophy and flourishing. The discussion ranges over what philosophy can and cannot tell us about career choices, the nature of values, life as the standard of value, and more.

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The basic ideas that people accept are like a computer’s operating system. If the OS has bugs and is vulnerable to viruses, it wreaks havoc on the machine and its user. The same goes for a person’s fundamental ideas about the nature of the world, his means of gaining knowledge, and what he ought to do with his life. In this episode, Jon gives an overview of some of the ideas that have aided progress, and some that have hindered it.

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0:00 Introduction

2:36 Plato's World of Forms and the Philosopher Dictatorship

6:22 Aristotle's philosophy of this world

10:22 Immanuel Kant and the Phenomenal Realm vs the Noumenal Realm

16:15 Ayn Rand's revival of Aristotle

21:08 Final comments

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Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset was one of my favorite books of 2021. It’s loaded with great tips for thinking more clearly and thereby improving your life. Here, I talk about what scout mindset is, why it’s powerful, and how to make it second nature.

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1:40 The Scout Mindset

9:20 Darwin's search for truth

15:14 Tips for practicing the Scout Mindset

19:19 Do you have a Scout Mindset?

24:42 Final comments

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Michael Strong is an education serial entrepreneur and the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalism Can Solve All the World’s Problems. Here, we discuss the virtue of independence and how the Socratic method can be used to cultivate it in oneself and others.

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0:00 Introduction

2:38 Is truth universal and what does that imply?

6:10 Certainty vs. Dogmatism

11:29 The Socratic method, Independence, and morality

23:15 Developing the independent thinking of young children

27:26 The Socratic method and persuasion

33:40 What's the purpose of education? How have we gone wrong? How can we fix it?

42:35 Using the Socratic method to level up in a field

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Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the bestselling author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and most recently, A World Without Email. In this episode, we talk about how the “hyperactive hive mind” approach to work undermines our productivity and happiness, what he’s learned from heroes like Lincoln and Socrates about building a better world, considerations surrounding the choice to have kids, and much more. 

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Just as we can build muscle, so we can build moral character—and we must if we want to flourish. Jon discusses morality and flourishing with Lawrence Reed, president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education.

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The artist’s job is to determine what is worthy of contemplation, and then to convey it via appropriate means. How can we adopt and apply the skill of prospecting for value, even if we’re not artists?

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Jon speaks with entrepreneur and business history chronicler Gary Hoover about the history and morality of business, and what makes people and their businesses thrive.

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Jon speaks with art expert Luc Travers about how to “read” paintings and extract meaningful experiences from them.

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Luc’s Kickstarter for Stories in Paint: http://kck.st/3muUoPD

Touching the Art: A Guide to Enjoying Art at a Museum by Luc Travers: https://amzn.to/3ED0YtF

Touching the Art review, by Angelica Werth: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2021/09/touching-the-art-a-guide-to-enjoying-art-at-a-museum-by-luc-travers/