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I am more or less committed to spending some of my time over the next few years studying and coming to terms with objectivism.

At the point I am at now, I would like some feedback on how to get a full handle on it.

Ethically (and therefore politically) I disagree with very little of what AR said, and at the other end of understanding I agree with her three basic axioms and much of her epistemology.

Getting from some of that, to some of her views - most notably abortion, is something I am having difficult understanding.

So it occurred to me that possibly I'm not being methodical enough.

Any ideas?

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Get Peikoff's audio courses from the Ayn Rand bookstore (or try to get them secondhand if it's too expensive for you). Especially "understanding Objectivism" "Objectivism through induction", "Judging, feeling and not being moralistic" and "The art of thinking".

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Get Peikoff's audio courses from the Ayn Rand bookstore (or try to get them secondhand if it's too expensive for you). Especially "understanding Objectivism" "Objectivism through induction", "Judging, feeling and not being moralistic" and "The art of thinking".

These are excellent, especially "Understanding Objectivism". These assume that you have first studied the "Introduction to Objectivism" course.

Let me also suggest that you read through the first non-fiction that AR wrote, i.e., "The Objectivist Newsletter" and "The Objectivist". Until just recently I had forgotten how helpful that was before I heard the first set of "Introduction to Objectivism" tapes.

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