With precision and clarity, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century provides an elegant solution to the problem of "universals" that has been troubling philosophy since the time of Plato and Aristotle, and in doing so, provides a defense of sense perception,...
Marcus Aurelius ponders his life experiences while eludicating the philosophy of stocism. Explore this book.
What is knowledge? How is it acquired? How are claims to knowledge to be validated? Can man achieve rational certainty, or is he doomed to perpetual doubt? How We Know answers these and related questions by providing an uncompromising defense of reason, logic, and...
Plato's dialogues - Euthyphro,” “Apology,” “Crito,” “Meno,” and “Phaedo” - are his recollections of the wisdom of teacher Socrates in life and in death. Explore this book.
In The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole: Disintegration, Integration, and Misintegration. He then surveys the history of Western Civilization and shows how the dominant method of thinking...
"Every human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others and therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself." - Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness It is taken as a...
Ayn Rand makes the case for why capitalism is not just the most productive economic system but is in fact the moral one. The late economist Walter E. Williams said Capitalism: The Unkown Ideal was "one of the best defenses and explanations of capitalism one is likely...
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody Have you heard that: language is violence and that science is sexist certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? being obese is healthy? there is no...
Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial "truth," the public good, doing one's duty—these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and...