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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: ‘Intellectual Humility’ vs. Intellectual Ambitiousness
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is joined by professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin to discuss the widespread notion that “intellectual humility” is the rational antidote to dogmatism.
Among the topics covered:
How academic and popular defenders of reason have mixed up a legitimate concern for careful thinking methods with the illegitimate idea that nothing is certain;
Why humility entails servility, despite failed attempts to reconcile it with the love of truth;
Why intellectual ambitiousness demands working hard to attain knowledge;
The difference between earned certainty, probability, and the false certainty claimed by religious mystics;
How inte...