The Leonard Peikoff Show, Christmas 1998 Special Edition (MP3 download) Lectures

The Leonard Peikoff Show, Christmas 1998 Special Edition (MP3 download) LecturesBy Leonard Peikoff This unique recording of The Leonard Peikoff Show was made on Christmas Eve in 1998. Taken from a documentation recording from the studio control board, you'll hear the host and the producers discussing the show behind the scenes: what music to play, how to generate more callers, and more. On air, Dr. Peikoff discusses the news of the day as it relates to traditional Christmas themes, e. g. can you be a better person than everyone

The focus is on the following texts: the Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite

Psychology of Altruism

to witness the launching of Apollo 11 that carried astronauts to the moon

Sophocles Oedipus the King

She goes on to relate the political and economic decline of the West since the 19th century to its philosophical cause: the rejection by the culture’s intellectuals of reason in favor of the morality of altruism

board members

His Girl Friday and Rio Bravo—and on two films (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Monkey Business) featuring Marilyn Monroe

Speaking to those whom she calls the “non-totalitarian liberals” and the “non-traditional conservatives”

it also provides him with an excellent opportunity to practice philosophical detection

the Renaissance culminated in the art of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Hugo presented both a literal cathedral and the essence of the concept: the guardian of sacred value

Journals includes her work on a movie she planned to write about the atomic bomb project—on The Moral Basis of Individualism