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The Morality of Capitalism | 2025
Don Watkins$1,500.00
Ayn Rand called capitalism the unknown ideal. But what makes it an ideal–and why has that ideal remained unknown? In this course, we’ll examine the philosophy, history, and economics of capitalism. Above all, we’ll examine the debate over capitalism’s morality–from opponents like Marx to alleged champions like Hayek. And we’ll see how Objectivism’s unique understanding and philosophical defense of capitalism cements it as the only moral social system.
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Advanced Topics in Objectivism and Philosophy | 2025
ARI Instructor
In this course, members of the ARU Graduate Center explore advanced topics in Objectivism and philosophy that relate to the subject matter areas in which they are developing expertise.
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Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs | 2025
Shoshana Milgram$1,500.00
The Man Who Laughs, according to Ayn Rand, was the best novel ever written by Victor Hugo, her favorite novelist. Together, we will see why she was right.
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Philosophy, Work, and Business | 2025
Don Watkins$1,500.00
Taking your life seriously requires taking work seriously. In this course, you will learn the principles and attitudes that will guide you in your work, your career, and in the world of business.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Virtue, Politics, and Esthetics
Onkar Ghate$490.00
The final course in this four-course track focuses on moral virtues, happiness, the rejection of force, and Objectivism’s view of art. We will discuss the virtues of independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, and pride, and relate them back to the “master” virtue: rationality.
- Flex, Flex (Multi-Course)
Advanced Seminar on Objectivism
Onkar Ghate$1,750.00
Through this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of the principles of Objectivism, including some of its advice about proper philosophical methodology. The cash value is that philosophy can become more fully an aid to your own life, thinking, work and happiness.
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Philosophical Perspectives on Work | 2025
Tristan de Liege$1,500.00
In this course, we will examine contemporary philosophical perspectives on work and labor through the 20th century to the present, contrasting important themes from academic philosophers’ work with that of Rand.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Metaphysics and the Foundations of Knowledge
Onkar Ghate$490.00
In this second course, we focus on the core of the Objectivist metaphysics and epistemology. We will explore the distinctions between the metaphysically given and the man-made, the axioms of existence, consciousness, and identity, and their implications for understanding reality.
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Goethe’s Faust | 2025
Nicolas Krusek$1,500.00
Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust is a monumental work of literature that takes the reader on a journey “from Heaven through the World to Hell.” In exquisite and memorable verse, it tells the story of a Medieval scholar who—frustrated with the limitations of human knowledge—enters into a bargain with the Devil in order to experience “all that is the lot of human kind.”
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Honors Seminar | 2025
Onkar Ghate
In this invitation-only seminar, ARU Honors Students develop their thinking, writing and research skills by engaging in research projects in a specific area of philosophical interest. The students receive regular feedback on their work from ARI senior fellows.
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Advanced Oral Communication Workshop | 2025
Yaron Brook
In this invitation-only course, Yaron Brook leads advanced workshops on public speaking for developing Objectivist intellectuals aspiring to speak at OCON, ARI’s annual summer conference.
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From the Frankfurt School to Critical Race Theory: The New Left | 2025
Nikos Sotirakopoulos$1,500.00
This course, led by Nikos Sotirakopoulos, will follow the intellectual and political developments of the Left from the 1960s until today.
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Ancient Greek Thought and Civilization, Part I: The Archaic Era (c. 776-510 BCE) | 2025
Jason Rheins$3,000.00
In this course we will examine key works and developments in the history, art, and literature of Ancient Greek civilization as it grows and flourishes during the so-called “Archaic Period” from the middle of the 8th century to the end of the 6th century BCE.
- Flex, Flex (Multi-Course)
Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction
Onkar Ghate$1,500.00
Rand held that art, particularly literature, was indispensable in depicting a moral ideal, her own new moral ideal emphatically included. Through examining Rand’s fiction we will learn about her new vision of the ideal.
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Auditor Pass | 2025
$2,500.00 – $5,000.00
Buy a 2-quarter or full-year auditing pass and gain access to all courses open to auditors.
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Objectivist Logic | 2025
Harry Binswanger$3,000.00
Ayn Rand embraced Aristotelian logic but took it much further. This course reviews the three most important ideas of Aristotelian logic and then focuses on the new principles of proper thinking developed by Ayn Rand.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Foundations of Physical Science I
Keith Lockitch$1,500.00
This course traces the development of man’s understanding of motion and gravitation, starting with the earliest astronomical observations of pre-Greek civilizations, and culminating in the achievements of Isaac Newton. How did mankind progress from a state of total ignorance about the stars, planets, Sun, and Moon to our first scientific understanding of these bodies and the laws that govern their behavior?
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Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction (Q3-Q4) | 2025
Onkar Ghate$3,000.00
To understand Rand’s philosophy one must give careful consideration to the content and meaning of her novels. This course provides a powerful corrective to a tendency among students of Objectivism to neglect Rand’s fiction in their study of the philosophy.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Concept-Formation, Objectivity, and Certainty
Onkar Ghate$490.00
In this third course, we will explore Objectivism’s approach to concept-formation, definitions, logic, and the relationship between reason and emotions. We begin with Rand’s take on the problem of universals and the process of concept formation.
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Intensive Seminar on Objectivism Part I: Foundations | 2025
Onkar Ghate$3,000.00
This is Part I of the Intensive Seminar on Objectivism, a challenging and intensive course that looks at Objectivism as a system of philosophy and how some of Rand’s key ideas compare and contrast with those of other philosophers. Parts I and II of the Intensive Seminar compress what was a two-year course into a single year.
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Intermediate Writing | 2025
Keith Lockitch$3,000.00
Writing is a skill, a creative activity. As such, it cannot be learned primarily by reading a textbook or listening to lectures. One learns to write by writing . . . and writing and writing and writing. This course builds on the skills acquired and lessons learned in Introduction to Writing.
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Introduction to Writing | 2025
Keith Lockitch$3,000.00
This course teaches the basic principles and methods of objective communication. We’ll treat communication as a science, as a skill that has certain objective principles that can be learned and applied to the improvement of one’s work.
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16-Week Objectivism Seminar (Q1-Q2) | 2025
Onkar Ghate$3,000.00
This is a two-quarter seminar exploring Objectivism in depth. Its goal is to help you learn how to better understand and “chew” various principles of Objectivism and philosophical issues more generally.
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Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction (Q1-Q2) | 2025
Onkar Ghate$3,000.00
To understand Rand’s philosophy one must give careful consideration to the content and meaning of her novels. This course provides a powerful corrective to a tendency among students of Objectivism to neglect Rand’s fiction in their study of the philosophy.