Ayn Rand’s ideas are vast and deep, spread across panoramic novels and voluminous essays. They can be incredibly inspiring—but to fully grasp and apply them takes more than inspiration. It takes a full, firsthand understanding, cultivated through structure, guidance, and practice.
This course is designed to help you get there. Guided by some of the world’s leading experts on Objectivism, you’ll follow a well-crafted path through key elements of the philosophy—including Rand’s views on reality, reason, virtue, happiness, freedom, and more.
You’ll deepen your knowledge not just about what Rand thought, but why—and how to think through these issues yourself. The result? A more integrated, confident, and practical grasp of Objectivism, readily applicable to your own life.
Whether you’re new to Rand’s work or have been studying it for years, this course will elevate your knowledge, refine your thinking, and give you tools to live more purposefully.
Course Format: This course features recorded lectures by Onkar Ghate not available elsewhere, and live instruction with Mike Mazza.
Join live online classes and participate in the discussion.
Can’t join the live class? Watch all classes anywhere, anytime.
Submit assignments for feedback from expert faculty—or simply enjoy the content and discussions for personal enrichment.
All courses include access to top-notch coaches, who help you set goals, stay on track, and apply what you’re learning to career or intellectual pursuits.
Expert content creators who develop the core course materials.
Onkar Ghate
Interactive session leaders for weekly live classes and Q&A
Mike Mazza
ARI Live Courses are for avocational and professional development purposes. They are not licensed and not accredited.
Students should have a moderate background in Objectivism before starting this course. Objectivism through Ayn Rand’s Fiction Part 1 and Part 2 are strongly recommended. At minimum, students entering the course should have read Rand’s major fiction works and have explored in some depth her nonfiction writings and/or Leonard Peikoff’s Objectivism the Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
We offer foundational courses in Objectivism and objective communication each year, as well as courses in special topics such as epistemology, literature, business, and intellectual history.
