Introductory Semester Schedule

The Objectivist Ethics

Suggested campus talks

Tara Smith: "The Virtuous Egoist"
Peter Schwartz: "The Virtue of Selfishness: Ayn Rand's Radical Code of Morality"
Edwin A. Locke: "Why Modern Intellectuals Deny the Concept of Evil"

Video Recordings

Debate: "Selfishness: Moral Offense or Moral Ideal?"
Peter Schwartz: "The Virtue of Selfishness: Ayn Rand's Radical Code of Morality"

Audio Recordings

Ayn Rand: "The 'Conflict' of Men's Interests" (In Lending Library)
Ayn Rand: "Ethics" (In Lending Library)
Ayn Rand: "Selfishness as a Virtue" (In Lending Library)
Leonard Peikoff: "Moral Virtue" (In Lending Library)

Suggested reading list

Ayn Rand: The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand: "Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics?" The Voice of Reason
Ayn Rand: "The Anatomy of Compromise" Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand: "Causality Versus Duty" Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand: "Selfishness Without a Self" Philosophy: Who Needs It
Leonard Peikoff: Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, chapter 69

Note: One option is to study The Virtue of Selfishness the whole semester. A good approach is to read a section as homework before each meeting.