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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Q&A on Ayn Rand’s Ethics with Dan Schwartz and Ziemowit Gowin
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Dan Schwartz and Ziemowit Gowin answer reader-submitted questions about Ayn Rand’s Objectivist ethics.
Among the topics covered:
What are Ayn Rand’s thoughts on ambition in career?How ambition can be moral or immoral depending on the goals pursued;Career ambition versus second-handedly chasing salary increases and promotions;
Career ambition in the context of pursuing values generally, including non-career values.
How does Rand’s virtue of rationality differ from Aristotle’s virtue of practical wisdom?Practical wisdom as the ability to deliberate well about how to act rightly in a given situation;
Why Rand...