📺  Yaron Brook Show | Dec 1, 2025
Conversation W/Harry Binswanger - Individual rights: Everthing You Wanted to Know | Yaron Brook Show
episode url: https://youtube.com/live/YNKuYJ1GuPk

“Individual Rights: Their Origin, Their Power, and Why They’re Vanishing Today.”

Why do we have rights at all? Where did they really come from—and why are they evaporating today?
Tonight, Yaron Brook sits down with one of the world’s leading Objectivist philosophers, Dr. Harry Binswanger, for a deep and uncompromising exploration of everything you ever wanted to know about individual rights but were never taught.

If you want the philosophical ammunition to defend freedom—this episode is a masterclass.

👤 About Harry Binswanger
Dr. Harry Binswanger is a preeminent Objectivist philosopher, long-time associate and friend of Ayn Rand, and one of the central figures in the development and teaching of Objectivism. He played a major role in the creation of the Ayn Rand Institute, serving 36 years on its Board, and taught philosophy across multiple universities including Pratt Institute, Hunter College, The New School, UT Austin, and more.

He conceived and created The Ayn Rand Lexicon, co-edited the epistemology workshops that form the Appendix of the 2nd edition of ITOE, and authored multiple influential works:
-- The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts
-- How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation
-- Ayn Rand’s Philosophic Achievement (published by ARI upon his retirement from the Board)

His membership site and newsletter can be found at HBletter.com.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS Main Topics
00:00 — Intro
00:40 — Who is Harry Binswanger?
02:00 — Why are individual rights so important?
03:35 — Where do rights come from?
05:35 — Inducing the concept of rights
07:45 — Why reason is essential
10:45 — Why rights became associated with religion
13:20 — Thinkers who expanded the idea of rights
17:20 — Rights as the bridge between morality and politics
20:00 — The Levelers
22:00 — The Founding Fathers
23:10 — David Hume
24:45 — Immanuel Kant
26:20 — Auguste Comte
27:10 — Hegel
28:50 — Rise of the nationalist movement
29:20 — Pope Innocent III quote
32:30 — Ayn Rand’s Anthem quote
36:00 — Altruistic “rights inflation”
41:25 — Ayn Rand’s contribution to rights theory
46:45 — Why nobody talks about rights today
50:35 — RandsdayCon link: https://randsdaycon.thebvh.com/

💬 LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A
53:45 — What separates animals from man regarding rights?
57:26 — Was Ayn Rand “lonely,” or is that projection?
59:45 — Is Spinoza’s view of emotional bondage essentially correct?
1:03:26 — Are “bondage” or “servitude” the right terms for self-enslavement?
1:08:00 — If Yaron were President, would America become more litigious?
1:09:23 — Is there a “pre-political” choice that grounds government?
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