Aristotle's Metaphysics (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall Forum

Aristotle's Metaphysics (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff at the Ford Hall ForumBy Robert Mayhew Aristotle's metaphysicshis view of the fundamental nature of realitywas a brilliant and (for the most part) this worldly attempt at avoiding two incorrect positions: Greek materialism, according to which every aspect of reality is reducible to matter; and Platonism, which held that what is real is a supernatural, non material world of forms. Dr. Mayhew examines the essential elements of Aristotle's metaphysics: the critique of Plato,

Herodotus's focus on customs

250 pages)

- Abstraction from Abstractions

Index of Company Names

Goldwater’s denouncement of the Tennessee Valley Authority

and integrity

The lectures include an analysis of Ayn Rand's philosophic methodology

Also described are two undelivered speeches: "The Speech America Is Waiting to Hear" (1944) and the speech she wrote for Goldwater (or Eisenhower) to deliver as the last speech in the 1964 presidential campaign

The Fountainhead vs

the Romans

Ours is an age of "complexity worship" says Leonard Peikoff in this lecture on the nature and necessity of principles

"By the end of the Golden Age of Greece