Ayn Rand University 4+

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.

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.

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.