Our next meeting is January 15, 2006. We will be starting on Chapter 3, titled "Concept-Formation".
To quote the first paragraph of Chapter 3:
"For man, sensory material is only the first step of knowledge, the basic source of information. Until he has conceptualized this information, man cannot do anything with it cognitively, nor can he act on it. Human knowledge and human action are conceptual phenomena."
(Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff)
Peikoff notes in this chapter that it is basically just an "introduction" to Ayn Rand's own book: Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE). For that reason, if you have the time, I recommend that you also read ITOE by Ayn Rand, in addition to reading Chapter 3 of OPAR. This is only if you have the time, and it is not a precondition to group participation. Even if you can't read ITOE right now, I recommend that you put it on your reading list and get to it whenever you can.
For meeting time and details, please sign up for the OPAR yahoo group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/opar/
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