Ayn Rand Institute

Name: Ayn Rand Institute
Rating: 4.8 (99 reviews)
Author: The Ayn Rand Institute

The best Ayn Rand content

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99 Ratings
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Education
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The Ayn Rand Institute
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EN
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Description Experience the world's best Objectivist content in one place with the official app of the Ayn Rand Institute. Learn Objectivism from the world's leading experts and Ayn Rand herself through fifty years of courses, lectures, videos, and articles. - Get answers to your questions through Aria, the Ayn Rand Institute's AI research assistant with exclusive access to thousands of pages from Ayn Rand's published works. - Take online courses designed by ARI's faculty. - Access exclusive content reserved for ARI's supporters. Designed for Learning On the Go Download content to watch or listen offline. Save your progress. Create and access playlists that group together the best content. Ask Aria Have a question about what Ayn Rand thought or said? Aria, ARI's AI research assistant, will tell you—and exactly where it found it. It’s the fastest way to find what Ayn Rand actually thought: no summaries detached from sources, no hallucinations, just precise, fully cited answers. The Biggest and Best Objectivist Content Library ARI is dedicated to sharing and preserving Ayn Rand's intellectual legacy. ARI's Archives house the world's largest collection of Ayn Rand's resources, many of which are available exclusively through the app, with new material added all the time. Access All of ARI's resources Find all of the Ayn Rand Institute's content, including videos, podcasts, courses and more, featuring commentary on current events, culture and ideas from experts dedicated to preserving and extending Ayn Rand's intellectual legacy.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

99 Ratings

Excellent content
10/12/2019
Bawb21
I’ve used this application for some time. The content is excellent. I’ve spent many hours listening to the material, and have gone through many of the courses. The material is just fantastic, and there is really no other place to get the lectures of Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Onkar Ghate, Tara Smith, Keith Locktich etc. It has become my go-to application for philosophical content, and I’ve found myself re-playing some of the material more than once!But I’m having trouble with running the application. There could be some improvements in how the app remembers where you are (it seems to work sometimes, not reliably). Also, it is sometimes difficult to move the cursor to move to a particular point - which I find myself having to do because the app doesn’t know where I am in a lecture. The real problem, that prompted this review: This week, as I was going through Leonard Peikoff’s OTI (wow), around lesson #6, I couldn’t get it to load. Now it looks like the entire course won’t load ... frustrating, since I was right in the middle of the “induction of Objectivity”. I’ve noticed that the course on “Logic” also has the same problem ... what’s going on? Other material seems to play normally. As a last resort, I’ve deleted the application because it seemed to be using too much memory.I will now try to reload the application and restart it.
Excellent content
10/12/2019
Bawb21

I’ve used this application for some time. The content is excellent. I’ve spent many hours listening to the material, and have gone through many of the courses. The material is just fantastic, and there is really no other place to get the lectures of Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Onkar Ghate, Tara Smith, Keith Locktich etc. It has become my go-to application for philosophical content, and I’ve found myself re-playing some of the material more than once!But I’m having trouble with running the application. There could be some improvements in how the app remembers where you are (it seems to work sometimes, not reliably). Also, it is sometimes difficult to move the cursor to move to a particular point - which I find myself having to do because the app doesn’t know where I am in a lecture. The real problem, that prompted this review: This week, as I was going through Leonard Peikoff’s OTI (wow), around lesson #6, I couldn’t get it to load. Now it looks like the entire course won’t load ... frustrating, since I was right in the middle of the “induction of Objectivity”. I’ve noticed that the course on “Logic” also has the same problem ... what’s going on? Other material seems to play normally. As a last resort, I’ve deleted the application because it seemed to be using too much memory.I will now try to reload the application and restart it.
Great app for learning about philosophy of objectivism... and philosophy in general
02/22/2019
JessicaW63
If you are interested in smart, reasonable people thinking clearly about the deepest questions about human life, this app is for you. If you want to learn more about Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, this app is for you. The app is easy to navigate and find high quality source material on a wide variety of topics of interest — ethics, theories of knowledge, capitalism, logic, the role of emotions, human happiness and flourishing, education and teaching resources, etc. There are lecture courses, videos, and articles from Ayn Rand as well as scholars who have spent many years studying her philosophy. It is like a modern, digital reference library for top-notch Objectivist thought.
Great app for learning about philosophy of objectivism... and philosophy in general
02/22/2019
JessicaW63

If you are interested in smart, reasonable people thinking clearly about the deepest questions about human life, this app is for you. If you want to learn more about Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, this app is for you. The app is easy to navigate and find high quality source material on a wide variety of topics of interest — ethics, theories of knowledge, capitalism, logic, the role of emotions, human happiness and flourishing, education and teaching resources, etc. There are lecture courses, videos, and articles from Ayn Rand as well as scholars who have spent many years studying her philosophy. It is like a modern, digital reference library for top-notch Objectivist thought.
What a great app; I love it.
03/02/2019
Casey at the bat.
There’s a huge amount of courses available. In less than a week I’ve been able to listen to hours of lectures no matter where I am. I’m starting with the basics and moving on to the more advanced and plan to eventually listen to them all. Things I learned years ago are better understood already.
What a great app; I love it.
03/02/2019
Casey at the bat.

There’s a huge amount of courses available. In less than a week I’ve been able to listen to hours of lectures no matter where I am. I’m starting with the basics and moving on to the more advanced and plan to eventually listen to them all. Things I learned years ago are better understood already.
Horribly buggy
07/06/2019
BuffaloMan50
I suppose to be fair, the fact that i can listen to the audio with my screen closed is a neat feature but this highly offset by the fact i can't finish a single course because of the number of glitches. I start a course and then a lecture will crash and I'll have to find a way to restart the lecture and by that time i have lost my spot. I am not sure why it is prompting me to download when all it seems to be doing is some 'pseudodownload' that takes 5 sec. If it were really downloading onto my phone, at least i could find it in my download folder and use it with another app or iTunes.
Horribly buggy
07/06/2019
BuffaloMan50

I suppose to be fair, the fact that i can listen to the audio with my screen closed is a neat feature but this highly offset by the fact i can't finish a single course because of the number of glitches. I start a course and then a lecture will crash and I'll have to find a way to restart the lecture and by that time i have lost my spot. I am not sure why it is prompting me to download when all it seems to be doing is some 'pseudodownload' that takes 5 sec. If it were really downloading onto my phone, at least i could find it in my download folder and use it with another app or iTunes.

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Seller: The Ayn Rand Institute
Size: 71 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.4 or later.

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