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Ancient Greek Thought and Civilization, Part I: The Archaic Era (c. 776-510 BCE) | 2025
Jason Rheins
$1,500.00
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 (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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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.
- 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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
- 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
- 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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Introduction to Finance | 2025
Yaron Brook
$1,500.00
This course offers a moral defense of finance and financiers. It methodically examines the vital role they serve in the economy. And it explores the philosophical ideas that make the attacks on financial markets possible and why the profit motive is the only moral and practical motive for financial transactions.
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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.