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Marx and Communism | 2025
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
$1,500.00
One of the most influential thinkers of all time. The political movement for which millions were ready to kill, and die for. Welcome to the ARU course on Karl Marx and communism! Together, we will get a firm grip on the basic ideas of Marx around capitalism, history, and human nature.
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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)
Objectivist Ethics with Tara Smith
Tara Smith
$990.00
This course will examine the foundational principles of Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy while addressing core questions that her theory typically raises. Its major topics will be: the foundations of value; the objectivity of value (in contrast with intrinsicist and subjectivist conceptions); survival “versus” flourishing; the causal character of moral guidance; the role of values and virtues; egoism. Principal readings will be essays and excerpts from Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff, supplemented with essays by other scholars of Objectivism.
- 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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Perspectives on Pedagogy | 2025
Matt Bateman
$1,500.00
Ayn Rand’s philosophy is a powerful framework for educators. This seminar is a deep dive into what she said directly about education, which includes both profound critiques of the status quo and positive conceptions of how to support developing minds. The discussion will include a special emphasis on relating Rand’s ideas to the history and present state of the field.
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The Morality of Capitalism | 2025
Don Watkins
$3,000.00
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–and above all the debate over capitalism’s morality.
- 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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Karl Popper | 2025
Mike Mazza
$1,500.00
This course explores Karl Popper’s “critical rationalist” philosophy. We will examine and challenge the assumptions that lead Popper to conclude that induction is a myth.
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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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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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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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Objectivism Seminar (Q3-Q4) | 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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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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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)
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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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.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Objectivism, Philosophy, and the Foundations of Ethics
Onkar Ghate
$490.00
This is the first in a four-course track exploring Objectivism as a system of philosophy. This course focuses on Objectivism’s distinctive conception of philosophy and its role in human life, including what a proper philosophical methodology looks like.
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Foundations of Physical Science II: Optics and the Nature of Light | 2025
Keith Lockitch
$1,500.00
Light and the faculty of vision have been subjects of considerable interest from antiquity on. This course will trace the growth in our understanding of the nature of light from the first, groping ideas of the Ancient Greeks up through the work of Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Huygens, Young and others.
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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.
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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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Ancient Greek Thought and Civilization Part II: The Greek Enlightenment and the Golden Age of Athens (510-399 BCE)
Jason Rheins
$1,500.00
In this course we will continue our examination of key works and developments in the history, art, and literature of Ancient Greek civilization through the first century of the so-called “Classical Age” (c.490-323 BCE), from the end of the Peisistratid tyranny and birth of Athenian Democracy (c.514-508 BCE) and the Persian Invasions (490, 480-79 BCE) down through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) and its immediate aftermath.
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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.
- 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?