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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Revolutionary, Secular Concept of Individual Rights | Ben Bayer
Description: https://youtu.be/79fT9VIDkVs
Podcast audio:
As Ayn Rand wrote, “The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully—and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it.” We can see this failure of understanding in the view, advanced by many conservatives and libertarians today, that the concept of individual rights ultimately derives from or is at least consistent with the Judeo-Christian morality.
In this talk, Ben Bayer explores some highlights of the history of the concept to understand why it is essentially a secula...