{"id":61,"date":"2019-01-12T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-01-12T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T14:42:40","slug":"thinking-like-an-individualist-by-ben-bayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/thinking-like-an-individualist-by-ben-bayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Like an Individualist by Ben Bayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This session explores a key theme of The Fountainhead: the importance of thinking for oneself. We discuss how key speeches and passages from the book address these questions: What does it mean to think for oneself? Does it mean believing whatever one likes, never learning from or agreeing with others, judging everything on a case-by-case basis? Or does it mean using a disciplined, principled method consistent with learning from others? (May contain mild Fountainhead plot spoilers.)<\/p>\n<p>Recorded live at Objectivist Summer Conference 2018<\/p>\n<p>Newport Beach, California<\/p>\n<p>July 3, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session explores a key theme of The Fountainhead: the importance of thinking for oneself. We discuss how key speeches and passages from the book address these questions: What does it mean to think for oneself? Does it mean believing whatever one likes, never learning from or agreeing with others, judging everything on a case-by-case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,8,7,14,13,9,152,10,20,37,66,12,113,15,6],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ari","tag-atlas-shrugged","tag-ayn-rand","tag-egoism","tag-ethics","tag-independence","tag-individual","tag-individualism","tag-literature","tag-morality","tag-objectivism","tag-philosophy","tag-reason","tag-selfishness","tag-the-fountainhead","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}