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 January 20, 2011
| Time: | 8-10 p.m. |
| Description: | "You Are Not Your Brother's Health Care Provider": Despite overwhelming evidence that government intervention wrecks health care, government control over American medicine keeps growing. Why? As Dr. Yaron Brook argues, virtually everyone believes that a person's need morally entitles him to have it fulfilled at others' expense. This morality of need is at the root of every government health care entitlement, from Medicaid to ObamaCare. In this provoca- tive talk, Brook attacks the morality of need, and proposes a revolutionary alternative: the moral right of each individual to live for his own sake, taking responsibility for his own life and needs - including his health care needs - on a free market. A Q&A will follow.
Tens of millions have read Ayn Rand's novels, including "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," and half a million copies of her works sell each year. Far fewer people know of the radical system of ideas underlying the stories she created. Standing alone when necessary, Rand defied the ideas of more than two millennia by championing individualism, capitalism, egoism and reason. She named her philosophy "Objectivism" because it proceeds from the axiom that "existence exists" and champions objectivity in all areas - cognition, values, law, art and so forth. Rand described Objectivism as "a philosophy for living on earth." The UT Objectivism Society serves as a source of information on and study of Objectivism. |
| Location: | Garrison Hall, Room 0.102 |
| Contact: | Alan D McKendree | 512-471-7929 |
| Sponsor: | UT Objectivism Society |
| Admission: | Free |
| Categories: | Everyone, Lecture/talk, Lifestyle & Community, Politics & International, Sports & Health |
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