Does “qua man” add a requirement to “man’s life” in the moral standard or not? Is happiness, life or both the purpose of ethics? Why “not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason?”
Have you ever wondered why Rand’s meta-ethical arguments are so uncharacteristically enigmatic? The cause will be traced to its roots in Rand’s ambitious aim to integrate happiness, egoism, and objectivity on a foundation of an essentially biological theory of human nature. Another fundamental alternative besides biological life and death will be introduced as the necessary foundation for moral teleology.
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What are our future physicians learning about health policy? Given the state of higher education today, it’s no surprise that health policy instruction at medical schools is government-centric. But what is surprising is how little formal policy instruction students receive – which presents a great opportunity to interject the voice of reason into the conversation. The Benjamin Rush Institute is doing just that. In just the fall semester of 2015, we reached 1300 medical students. Come hear how we are presenting the ideas of individual rights and limited government in a way that even liberal medial students are willing to consider these alternatives.
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Disregard what isn’t working. Without better messaging, we have no hope of spreading our ideas effectively. I’ll explore ways to better package our ideas so that they are exciting, simple, and more comfortable.
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Property control is capital control, and women – still -- have less of it than men. What you may not realize is lingering perverse incentives that guarantee male ownership are still perpetuated today even in the US, particularly as assets transfer from one generation to the next.
This is not just a 3rd world problem, Kate McKeon will present examples of current, NYC-based Estate Planning situations where even attempts at fairness create an unintended but real disadvantage for the women.
The next 10 years represent the largest expected generational asset transfer in history. Now is the time to remove illogical, dated social policy from our laws for property ownership and control of capital thereby reducing incentives to discriminate against women.
If we want to eradicate the inequalities among men and women, we must address underlying social attitudes derived from codified legal and financial structures.
Participant/Sponsored Sessions are time slots in which Atlas Summit participants and paying sponsors can offer talks and workshops of their own.
Contact William Thomas, the conference director, for more information about holding a PSS.
Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto is a treasure trove of ideas dealing with the nature of art. Both complex and broad, it gives us tantalizing peeks into the artist's world and the source of our attraction to art. For this talk, artist Michael Newberry will dive deeply into some of Rand’s ideas and show their relationship to painting and sculpture.
(This is newly scheduled: Alexander R. Cohen, originally scheduled for this time slot, is unable to attend.)
