What Might Be and Ought to Be (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and Terrorism

What Might Be and Ought to Be (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and TerrorismBy Tore Boeckmann Aristotle says in the Poetics that fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only as they are, while fiction represents them as they might be and ought to be. Ayn Rand calls this "the most important principle of the esthetics of literature" and, more personally, "the rule of my life work." In this lecture, Mr. Boeckmann analyzes how the might be and ought to be principle relates to

how a distorted view of the "police power" hampers land use and development in America

how does Ayn Rand’s theory represent a revolution regarding the “cognitive content” of higher abstractions

the background is not

and the existence and nature of God

emotions and objectivity

He asks whether a devout Christian is actually opposed to murder

Leonard Peikoff and others

examines all three

or its illusions about the workability of its proposals

Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living

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Arrival in America to We the Living (1926-1936)