"What Judgment Requires" by Leonard Peikoff

[@3Zeddy2]

I spent around 2k dollars on lectures from AynRandBookstore, and the estore, I bought this lecture series, but I gotta say I'm happy that they are now coming out on KZbin. When I heard Yaron talk about this on his show I was excited, now I can share with people.

[@user-gy1ky9qe7w]

10:20 we distinguish all moral judgment between moral breaches and errors of knowledge 12:56 five concept metaphors,synonym, empty denunciation without a special content 13:25 bad( implies no morality) negative assessment Immoral () 1st serious negative -type of badness 21:20 vicious means you display ultimate unity of vices 25:40 wicked 32:45 action to reality Action to other action Action to consciousness 35:00 evil (final net sum of the person behavior)-ssddh 42:00 to judge morally ees 44:10 judge man character 47:20 when judge Consciousness Existence

[@Armando7654]

He's written that great book Ominous Parallels

[@CavalieriTom]

Thanks for sharing such a great content. And cheers to Professor Peikoff.

[@kittredgejohn]

Has an one charted the differences between Bad, Immoral, Vicious, Wicked, and Evil for reference and consideration?

[@noyb154]

"Judgement" is not a terribly philosophical concept. There is knowing, there is truth, there is evidence, there is identity, there is decision making. Judgement seems to conflate and confuse to the point of incoherence. It's never defined clearly. "Is someone evil" presumes a person can be evil in the first place. Whether or not someone is "redeemable" or not, is a matter of estimation based on empirical evidence. I don't know what judgement means unless you're giving someone the power to condemn a person. Who has this power? And how did they get it? And how is it exercised? What are the limits of the power of the judge? Again, we haven't defined.

[@AndSendMe]

Great questions. This talk depends on a whole context of ideas, and is not the place to start a serious study of the ideas of Ayn Rand. For that better to start with her "Atlas Shrugged", then Dr. Peikoff's "Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand". Somewhere in there you will find it useful to read Greg Salmieri's first chapter from the Blackwell "Companion to Ayn Rand": 'An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand', which is available free at the Wiley web site. This channel also includes introductory videos on Rand's ideas, but it sounds like you want to be systematic. If you want to stick to videos, then search this channel for "introduction" videos, then look to ARI's 'campus' website for beginner courses, all free.