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For episode 59, I had the pleasure of speaking with David Kelley, a highly regarded Philosophy Teacher/Writer and Founder of The Atlas Society. David has spent his life studying, teaching, and promoting Objectivism associated with Ayn Rand. To connect with the Outstanding Ohioans show, here are a few ways:
Here were the topics we discussed in our conversation:
- Growing up in Cleveland and Shaker Heights
- reading Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
- concept of Individualism vs. Collectivism
- Definition of Objectivism, under these four pillars:
- Reason
- Achievement
- Individualism
- Freedom
- his teaching career and process of deciding to form The Atlas Society
- speculation on universities and intellectuals becoming more collectivist in the United States, and what in Ayn Rand’s background led her to oppose this movement
- his role in the creation of The Atlas Shrugged Trilogy
- The Tuttle Twin book series by Connor Boyack to teach the principles of freedom to children
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