Top 5 New Videos of 2017 on ARI’s YouTube Channel

POST by The Editors | View All Posts December 13, 2017

Each year the Ayn Rand Institute publishes dozens of new videos on its YouTube channel. Although the 2017 calendar year isn’t quite over, we thought we’d highlight the five videos from 2017 that attracted the most viewers.

Culture And Society

“Objectivism Is About a Love for Productive Ability”

POST by The Editors | View All Posts December 04, 2017

Onkar Ghate on the core essence of individual rights.

Culture And Society

Productive Achievement: Man’s “Noblest Activity”

POST by The Editors | View All Posts November 07, 2017

Most thinkers throughout history have held a negative or, at best, neutral view of productive work. If not scorned outright, production has usually been viewed as having no moral significance. But Ayn Rand had a unique view of the human potential, central to which is the importance she accords to the act of production. Productive achievement, in her philosophy, is man’s “noblest activity.” This talk explores what Objectivism means by the virtue of productiveness and discusses aspects of our culture’s positive and negative attitudes toward producers and productive activity.