"The Trinity of Liberty: Individualism, Individual Rights, and Independent Thinking" by Craig Biddle — delivered at Hungry Minds Speaker Series, Denver, CO, Feb 2, 2013
What are the essential principles that give rise to and support a free society? This is the most pressing question mankind faces today, and its answer is the least understood. In this speech, Craig Biddle argues that a free society depends on the recognition and acceptance of three key principles—individualism, individual rights, and independent thinking—and that each of these is a part or manifestation of one deeper principle: egoism. Biddle then discusses crucial ways to conceptualize and advocate these principles, including understanding and upholding Ayn Rand's morality of rational selfishness, clarifying the nature of independent thinking vs. second-handedness, and identifying the fallacies of "package-dealing" and "the frozen abstraction."
Craig Biddle is the editor of The Objective Standard and the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, a highly concretized, systematic introduction to Ayn Rand's ethics.
The Objective Standard: http://www.theobjectivestandard.com
Loving Life: http://amzn.to/L01X9P
