On today’s episode John Papola has a long, philosophical conversation with Tara Smith, PhD. Professor Smith is a moral philosopher and philosophy professor at the University of Texas. She also holds the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism.
John and Tara dig into Objectivist philosophy, the belief system created by author and philosopher Ayn Rand. They discuss some of the pillars of the philosophy, human nature, and the complicated relationship between objectivism and religion.
More from our guest:
Ayn Rand Institute Scholar Bio
References from this episode:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
Equal is Unfair by Yaron Brook & Don Watkins
Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics by Tara Smith
The Pursuit (film)