For the New Christian Intellectual

By Jacob Brunton and Cody Libolt

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October 19, 2024 FTNCI 090: Objectivism Book Study (Week 32) — Capitalism as Objective
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
This week our reading was:
Chapter 11 – Capitalism as the system of objectivity 395-405
Chapter 11 – Opposition to capitalism as dependent on bad epistemology 406-412
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
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About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
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September 30, 2024 FTNCI 089: Objectivism Book Study (Week 31) — Capitalism as Moral
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
This week our reading was:
Ch. 11 – Capitalism (Introduction) 378-379
Ch. 11 – Capitalism as the only moral social system 380-395
For a society’s legal system, the alternatives are either:
1) A policy of legalized plunder.
OR
2) Laissez-faire capitalism.
There are no other options.
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
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About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
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August 28, 2024 FTNCI 088: Objectivism Book Study (Week 30) — Good and Bad Government
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
This week our reading was:
Ch. 10 – Government as an agency to protect rights 363-368
Ch. 10 – Statism as the politics of unreason 369-377
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
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July 01, 2024 FTNCI 087: Objectivism Book Study (Week 29) — Individual Rights
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Welcome to Week 29 of the Objectivism Book Study.
Our reading this week was:
Ch. 10 – Government (Introduction) 350
Ch. 10 – Individual rights as absolutes 351-363
See our related article:
“Religious Liberty” — A Different Take
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
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May 21, 2024FTNCI 086: Objectivism Book Study (Week 28) — Happiness
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
Chapter 9:
Virtue as practical 329-335
Happiness as the normal condition of man 335-342
Sex as metaphysical 343-349
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
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April 15, 2024FTNCI 085: Objectivism Book Study (Week 27) — Trader Principle and Force
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
Ch. 8 – The initiation of physical force as evil 312-324
Ch. 9 – Happiness (Introduction) 325
Ch. 9 – Virtue as practical 326-329
“So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate… no man may start the use of physical force against others.”
This is a quote from the main hero in Atlas Shrugged.
In this episode we finish discussing why the initiation of physical force is evil. Then we move into chapter 9 to discuss Ayn Rand’s claim that virtue is practical.
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
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1h 5min
January 22, 2024FTNCI 084: Objectivism Book Study (Week 26) — Pride
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
Ch. 8 – Pride as moral ambitiousness 303-309
Ch. 8 – The initiation of physical force as evil 310-312
Is pride a good thing?
Yes and no.
Today we are looking at Ayn Rand’s understanding of pride as a virtue. We will compare this idea with Christian teaching.
After that discussion, we will to look at one major vice that Rand and Peikoff consider worthy of special investigation: the initiation of physical force.
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
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December 27, 2023FTNCI 083: Objectivism Book Study (Week 25) — Justice and Productiveness
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
Justice as rationality in the evaluation of men (276-291)
Productiveness as the adjustment of nature to man (292-303)
In Proverbs 25:2 we read:
“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.”
At FTNCI, we believe in searching out the truth, wherever it is to be found. Today we’re looking at Ayn Rand’s understanding of the virtues of Justice and Productiveness.
We read this with an eye toward how Christians in particular can benefit from the thought of Ayn Rand.
“Productive work,” writes Ayn Rand, “is the central purpose of a rational man’s life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.”
Justice is the recognition of the fact “that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.”
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
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September 26, 2023FTNCI 082: Objectivism Book Study (Week 24) — Integrity and Honesty
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
Integrity as loyalty to rational principles (259-266)
Honesty as rejection of unreality (267-276)
Ayn Rand understood integrity as meaning loyalty to rational principles. And she understood honesty as the rejection of unreality.
These, along with the other virtues that Rand names, tend to be missing from our society, and even from our churches, in exactly the kind of way that would lead to the kind of situation that the world has descended into today.
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
Click here to subscribe.
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August 07, 2023 FTNCI 081: Objectivism Book Study (Week 23) — Independence
The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff.
Our reading this week was:
-Values as objective 244-249 (cont.)
-Virtue (Introduction) 250
-Independence as a primary orientation to reality, not to other men 251-259
“There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people.”
That is a quote from Francis A. Schaeffer, in How Should We Then Live?
How should we live? That is the question to which the philosophical branch called ethics seeks to provide a robust answer.
What we’re exploring in the reading this week has a huge bearing on our understanding of theological topics.
Once again, we run into disagreements with mainstream Christian notions, especially the moral argument for the existence of God, which is often discussed by those who follow Van Til’s Presuppositionalism.
“Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
-Proverbs 8:33-36 ESV
An area where we agree with Ayn Rand is that morality is practical, and it is based on life as the standard of value.
Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
List of Dates and Readings
Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand
About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual)
Ayn Rand and Christianity?
Christianity + Western Civilization
The Plunder of the Egyptians
Americanism Book Study
Become a Patron and Get Full-Length Exclusive Podcasts
As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, get access to occasional patron-only episodes.
As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, you can attend occasional live podcast recording sessions and submit questions either live or beforehand + get access to our exclusive culture war training.
Video Version
Click here to find our replays on YouTube.
About the Podcast
For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators.
We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights.
Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode.
How to Help
The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review.
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1h 5min

FAQs about For the New Christian Intellectual:

How many episodes does For the New Christian Intellectual have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.