{"id":3967,"date":"2015-03-09T03:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T03:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2015-03-09T03:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T03:12:56","slug":"stolyarov-interviews-zantonavitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/03\/stolyarov-interviews-zantonavitch\/","title":{"rendered":"G. Stolyarov II Interviews Kyrel Zantonavitch, Author of &#8220;Pure Liberal Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/goLVxdWMNdk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On March 7, 2015, Mr. Stolyarov invited Kyrel Zantonavitch, the author of <em>Pure Liberal Fire: Brief Essays on the New, General, and Perfected Philosophy of Western Liberalism<\/em> and founder of The Liberal Institute, to discuss his original philosophical framework and its relationship to Objectivism, Classical Liberalism, Austrian Economics, Libertarianism, and Transhumanism. Mr. Zantonavitch was asked challenging questions regarding his ideas and provocative approach, as well as the objectives of his philosophical system. The intense discussion &#8211; which, in some places, became a debate &#8211; highlighted both areas of agreement and areas of disagreement between Mr. Stolyarov and Mr. Zantonavitch.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pure Liberal Fire<\/em> is available on Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pure-Liberal-Fire-Philosophy-Liberalism\/dp\/1484872681\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The website of The Liberal Institute is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberalinstitute.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2014\/05\/pure-liberal-fire-review\/\">review of <em>Pure Liberal Fire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 describes Mr. Zantonavitch\u2019s thinking thus: \u201cThere is perhaps not a single thinker in the world more fearless than Kyrel Zantonavitch. <em>Pure Liberal Fire<\/em> is the direct, provocative distillation of his thoughts on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, economics, culture, religion, and the history of philosophy \u2013 including Objectivism and Classical Liberalism. Zantonavitch seeks to evoke a pure, true liberalism, and he shows no mercy for ideologies and attitudes that constitute its antithesis. He certainly leaves no doubt in the reader\u2019s mind about where he stands on the issues addressed \u2013 and each article within the book employs an abundance of superlative expressions \u2013 be they positive or negative. When Zantonavitch praises, he <em>really<\/em> praises \u2013 and the same goes for when he condemns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stolyarov&#8217;s response to Mr. Zantonavitch&#8217;s approach is characterized by the following comment: \u201cZantonavitch\u2019s approach and style would entail achieving a fiery, dramatic, immediate deposition of everything (every person, every policy, every idea) he considers evil, dangerous, or damaging. My view of reform is more surgical, focused on getting the sequence of steps right so as to minimize the damage inflicted during the transition while ridding the world of the disease of bad policies (and, in a more long-term fashion, through persuasion and free-market education, also ridding it of bad thinking of the sort that motivates bad policies).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, 2015, Mr. Stolyarov invited Kyrel Zantonavitch, the author of Pure Liberal Fire: Brief Essays on the New, General, and Perfected Philosophy of Western Liberalism and founder of The Liberal Institute, to discuss his original philosophical framework and its relationship to Objectivism, Classical Liberalism, Austrian Economics, Libertarianism, and Transhumanism. Mr. Zantonavitch was asked challenging questions regarding his ideas and provocative approach, as well as the objectives of his philosophical system. The intense discussion &#8211; which, in some places,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/03\/stolyarov-interviews-zantonavitch\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,41,104],"tags":[42,2778,1370,40,738,2112,267,44,3757,3012],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-philosophy","category-transhumanism","tag-ayn-rand","tag-classical-liberalism","tag-debate","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-kyrel-zantonavitch","tag-liberalism","tag-libertarianism","tag-objectivism","tag-open-objectivism","tag-pure-liberal-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}