Dr. Peikoff will offer six 90-minute seminars based on Chapters 6-11 of his forthcoming book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. (aka OPAR. The text of these chapters will be sent to conference enrollees in advance of the start of the conference.) The subjects are: Man. The Good, Virtue, Happiness, Government, and Capitalism. Topics include: the nature of living organisms, "life" and "value," values as objective, the validation of egoism, rationality and the six derivative virtues, the moral and the practical, the benevolent-universe premise, sex as metaphysical, the validation of man's rights, capitalism as the system of morality and of objectivity, statism as the politics of unreason.

Emphasis is placed on the uniqueness of Ayn Rand's philosophy, on its hierarchical structure, on new integrations between its elements, and on the reasons for the specific wording of important formulations. After opening remarks on each chapter by Dr. Peikoff, students are encouraged to ask as many questions as time permits.