📚 15 Books mentioned in "Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138" of Lex Fridman Podcast

and in 1984 84 is published a couple of years after I think after an there's reason to believe he read he read Anthem

Yaron mentions this book in relation to Anthem and its publication date.

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UK is very interested in dystopian novels Animal Farm

Yaron mentions this book in the context of dystopian novels popular in the UK.

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she writes a small novelet called Anthem

Yaron mentions Ayn Rand's novelette.

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as a side note let me say that I first read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountain Head early in college along with many other literary and philosophical works from n haiger Kant lock Fuko wienstein and of course all the great existentialists from kard to kamu

The host mentions reading this book by Ayn Rand in college.

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Start with fad

Yaron recommends starting with The Fountainhead if focused on personal life.

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uh she articulated them not so I would say not in conventional philosophical form so she didn't write philosophical essays using the Philosopher's language it's why partially why I think philos phers have never taken us seriously they're actually accessible to us we can actually read them and she integrates the philosophy in what I think amazing ways with psychology with history with economics with politics with what's going on in the world uh and she has dozens and dozens and dozens of essays that she she wrote uh many of them were aggregated into books uh I particularly recommend books like uh uh the virtue of selfishness capitalism the unknown ideal uh and and uh philosophy who needs it and you know it's it's a I think it's a it's a it's a beautiful philosophy uh you know I know you're big on love I think it's a philosophy of love we can talk about that essentially it's about love that's what the philosophy is all about and when it apply in terms of it applying to self um and uh you know I I think it's sad that so few so few people read it and so few intellectuals take it seriously and are willing to engage with it

Yaron recommends this book, which is a collection of Ayn Rand's essays.

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the number one book The Bible

Yaron mentions The Bible was ranked as the number one most influential book among CEOs in a survey.

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yaron is the current chairman of the board at the IR Rand Institute host of the Yan Brook show and the co-author of free market Revolution equal is unfair and several other books where he analyzes systems of government human behavior and The Human Condition from the perspective of objectivism

The host introduces Yaron Brook and mentions him as the co-author of this book.

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yaron is the current chairman of the board at the IR Rand Institute host of the Yan Brook show and the co-author of free market Revolution equal is unfair and several other books where he analyzes systems of government human behavior and The Human Condition from the perspective of objectivism

The host introduces Yaron Brook and mentions him as the co-author of this book.

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and she has a whole book she has a book called uh introduction to objectivist epistemology which I encourage any scientist mathematician anybody interested in science to read because it is a tur of force on on on in a sense this the the the what it means to hold Concepts and what it means to discover new discoveries and to use to use Concepts and how we use Concepts

Yaron mentions this book by Ayn Rand and recommends it, particularly to scientists and mathematicians.

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and basically suggesting how it might rise another that's the ominous parallel so the parallel he draws is to the United States and he says those same intellectual forces AR rising in the United States and this is this was published I think in published in 81 ' 82 was published in ' 82 so it's published a long time ago and yet you look around us and it's unbelievably predictive sadly about the state of the world

Yaron refers to the book title again while discussing its content.

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uh she articulated them not so I would say not in conventional philosophical form so she didn't write philosophical essays using the Philosopher's language it's why partially why I think philos phers have never taken us seriously they're actually accessible to us we can actually read them and she integrates the philosophy in what I think amazing ways with psychology with history with economics with politics with what's going on in the world uh and she has dozens and dozens and dozens of essays that she she wrote uh many of them were aggregated into books uh I particularly recommend books like uh uh the virtue of selfishness capitalism the unknown ideal uh and and uh philosophy who needs it and you know it's it's a I think it's a it's a it's a beautiful philosophy uh you know I know you're big on love I think it's a philosophy of love we can talk about that essentially it's about love that's what the philosophy is all about and when it apply in terms of it applying to self um and uh you know I I think it's sad that so few so few people read it and so few intellectuals take it seriously and are willing to engage with it

Yaron recommends this book, which is a collection of Ayn Rand's essays.

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as a side note let me say that I first read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountain Head early in college along with many other literary and philosophical works from n haiger Kant lock Fuko wienstein and of course all the great existentialists from kard to kamu

The host mentions reading this book by Ayn Rand in college.

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I love yeah the reading I'm reading it's so long it's been taking me forever the the rise and Falls the Third Reich

The host mentions reading this book and finding it long.

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she writes her first novel is a novel called We The Living which is the most autobiographical of all her novels

Yaron mentions Ayn Rand's first novel and describes it.

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