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Ancient Greek Thought and Civilization, Part I: The Archaic Era (c. 776-510 BCE) | 2025
Jason Rheins
$1,500.00
In this course we will examine key works and developments in the history, art, and literature of Ancient Greek civilization as it grows and flourishes during the so-called “Archaic Period” from the middle of the 8th century to the end of the 6th century BCE.
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Karl Popper | 2025
Mike Mazza
$1,500.00
This course explores Karl Popper’s “critical rationalist” philosophy. We will examine and challenge the assumptions that lead Popper to conclude that induction is a myth.
- Flex, Flex (Multi-Course)
Advanced Seminar on Objectivism
Onkar Ghate
$1,750.00
Through this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of the principles of Objectivism, including some of its advice about proper philosophical methodology. The cash value is that philosophy can become more fully an aid to your own life, thinking, work and happiness.
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Objectivism Seminar (Q3-Q4) | 2025
Onkar Ghate
$3,000.00
This is a two-quarter seminar exploring Objectivism in depth. Its goal is to help you learn how to better understand and “chew” various principles of Objectivism and philosophical issues more generally.
- Flex, Flex (Multi-Course)
Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction
Onkar Ghate
$1,500.00
Rand held that art, particularly literature, was indispensable in depicting a moral ideal, her own new moral ideal emphatically included. Through examining Rand’s fiction we will learn about her new vision of the ideal.
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Honors Seminar | 2025
Onkar Ghate
In this invitation-only seminar, ARU Honors Students develop their thinking, writing and research skills by engaging in research projects in a specific area of philosophical interest. The students receive regular feedback on their work from ARI senior fellows.
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Intensive Seminar on Objectivism Part I: Foundations | 2025
Onkar Ghate
$3,000.00
This is Part I of the Intensive Seminar on Objectivism, a challenging and intensive course that looks at Objectivism as a system of philosophy and how some of Rand’s key ideas compare and contrast with those of other philosophers. Parts I and II of the Intensive Seminar compress what was a two-year course into a single year.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Concept-Formation, Objectivity, and Certainty
Onkar Ghate
$490.00
In this third course, we will explore Objectivism’s approach to concept-formation, definitions, logic, and the relationship between reason and emotions. We begin with Rand’s take on the problem of universals and the process of concept formation.
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Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction (Q1-Q2) | 2025
Onkar Ghate
$3,000.00
To understand Rand’s philosophy one must give careful consideration to the content and meaning of her novels. This course provides a powerful corrective to a tendency among students of Objectivism to neglect Rand’s fiction in their study of the philosophy.
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Philosophical Perspectives on Work | 2025
Tristan de Liege
$1,500.00
In this course, we will examine contemporary philosophical perspectives on work and labor through the 20th century to the present, contrasting important themes from academic philosophers’ work with that of Rand.
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Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs | 2025
Shoshana Milgram
$1,500.00
The Man Who Laughs, according to Ayn Rand, was the best novel ever written by Victor Hugo, her favorite novelist. Together, we will see why she was right.
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Introduction to Finance | 2025
Yaron Brook
$1,500.00
This course offers a moral defense of finance and financiers. It methodically examines the vital role they serve in the economy. And it explores the philosophical ideas that make the attacks on financial markets possible and why the profit motive is the only moral and practical motive for financial transactions.
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Philosophy, Work, and Business | 2025
Don Watkins
$1,500.00
Taking your life seriously requires taking work seriously. In this course, you will learn the principles and attitudes that will guide you in your work, your career, and in the world of business.
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Advanced Topics in Objectivism and Philosophy | 2025
ARI Instructor
In this course, members of the ARU Graduate Center explore advanced topics in Objectivism and philosophy that relate to the subject matter areas in which they are developing expertise.
- Flex, Flex (Single Course)
Virtue, Politics, and Esthetics
Onkar Ghate
$490.00
The final course in this four-course track focuses on moral virtues, happiness, the rejection of force, and Objectivism’s view of art. We will discuss the virtues of independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, and pride, and relate them back to the “master” virtue: rationality.
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Auditor Pass | 2025
$2,500.00 – $5,000.00
Buy a 2-quarter or full-year auditing pass and gain access to all courses open to auditors.
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Ancient Greek Thought and Civilization Part II: The Greek Enlightenment and the Golden Age of Athens (510-399 BCE)
Jason Rheins
$1,500.00
In this course we will continue our examination of key works and developments in the history, art, and literature of Ancient Greek civilization through the first century of the so-called “Classical Age” (c.490-323 BCE), from the end of the Peisistratid tyranny and birth of Athenian Democracy (c.514-508 BCE) and the Persian Invasions (490, 480-79 BCE) down through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) and its immediate aftermath.
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Marx and Communism | 2025
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
$1,500.00
One of the most influential thinkers of all time. The political movement for which millions were ready to kill, and die for. Welcome to the ARU course on Karl Marx and communism! Together, we will get a firm grip on the basic ideas of Marx around capitalism, history, and human nature.
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Perspectives on Pedagogy | 2025
Matt Bateman
$1,500.00
Ayn Rand’s philosophy is a powerful framework for educators. This seminar is a deep dive into what she said directly about education, which includes both profound critiques of the status quo and positive conceptions of how to support developing minds. The discussion will include a special emphasis on relating Rand’s ideas to the history and present state of the field.
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Intensive Seminar on Objectivism Part II: Normative Principles | 2025
Onkar Ghate
$3,000.00
This is Part II of the Intensive Seminar on Objectivism, a challenging and intensive course that looks at Objectivism as a system of philosophy and how some of Rand’s key ideas compare and contrast with those of other philosophers. Parts I and II of the Intensive Seminar compress what was a two-year course into a single year.
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Introduction to Writing | 2025
Keith Lockitch
$3,000.00
This course teaches the basic principles and methods of objective communication. We’ll treat communication as a science, as a skill that has certain objective principles that can be learned and applied to the improvement of one’s work.
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Intermediate Writing | 2025
Keith Lockitch
$3,000.00
Writing is a skill, a creative activity. As such, it cannot be learned primarily by reading a textbook or listening to lectures. One learns to write by writing . . . and writing and writing and writing. This course builds on the skills acquired and lessons learned in Introduction to Writing.
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Foundations of Physical Science II: Optics and the Nature of Light | 2025
Keith Lockitch
$1,500.00
Light and the faculty of vision have been subjects of considerable interest from antiquity on. This course will trace the growth in our understanding of the nature of light from the first, groping ideas of the Ancient Greeks up through the work of Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Huygens, Young and others.
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Advanced Oral Communication Workshop | 2025
Yaron Brook
In this invitation-only course, Yaron Brook leads advanced workshops on public speaking for developing Objectivist intellectuals aspiring to speak at OCON, ARI’s annual summer conference.