Craig Biddle on "Living Purposefully"
Objectivism holds that one's success in life depends on one's choosing and achieving three cardinal values: reason, purpose, and self-esteem. While much has been said about reason and self-esteem, relatively little has been said about purpose. What exactly is this value? How does one embrace it? What does it mean to live purposefully?View the flyer for this event. Craig Biddle also spoke on "Ayn Rand's Morality of Selfishness" at University of Colorado at Boulder on November 3rd, 2005.
This lecture examines the nature and importance of purpose, surveying its place in the Objectivist ethics, its role in both motivation and thinking, its relationship to the virtues, and potential misconceptions of the value (such as the error of freezing "purpose" at the level of "central purpose" or "career") which can retard one's life. The lecture aims to expand one's understanding of this vital concept and thus to enhance one's ability to live fully selfishly.
Craig Biddle is a popular Objectivist speaker and writer on ethical and epistemological issues. He is the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It. He is currently writing a book on the principles of rational thinking.