Navigator, September, 2000

Summer Seminar Demonstrates Theory and Practice. "The seminar is the best week of graduate school I've ever had," said software consultant Jeff Filo. "It [gave me] a glimpse of what it would be like to attend an Objectivist university." Held in Vancouver, Canada, TOC's eleventh annual summer seminar focused on the arts, applying Objectivism to everyday life, and the future of Objectivism. Speakers at this event included: David Kelley, Will Thomas, Robert Bidinotto, Marsha Enright, David Mayer, and Nathaniel Branden.

Shaping Corporate Culture with Objectivism. In an economy driven by innovation, businesses succeed by empowering employees to be creative, by holding them responsible for results, and by celebrating achievement. But creating a corporate culture based on those values is a major challenge. In this exclusive Navigator interview, TOC Benefactor Franklin H. Brooks describes how he has met this challenge. Drawing on principles of the Objectivist ethics, he has designed for his firm management practices and training programs that foster individual responsibility and creativity. Brooks, is Managing Principal with FreemanWhite, a design-consulting firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Defining Coercion. Adapted from the second session of his summer seminar course, "Philosophical Method," TOC executive director David Kelley takes "coercion" as an example and shows how to define abstract philosophical concepts.

Classical Realism: A Living Artistic Tradition. Drawing from the work of Richard Lack, artist Stephen Gjertson relates the history of Classical Realism and explains that it is characterized by a respect for the great traditions of Western art.

The Birth of a New Material. Charles-Marie de la Condamine spent nearly a decade exploring South America and in the process discovered the first new general-purpose material since ancient times.