The Virtue of Selfishness

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The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, except for "The Objectivist Ethics," which was a paper Rand delivered at the University of Wisconson during a symposium on "Ethics in Our Time." The book covers several issues of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. Some of its themes include the identification and validation of egoism as a rational code of ethics, the destructiveness of altruism, and the nature of a proper government.


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Ayn Rand's works
Fiction Night of January 16th • We the Living • Anthem • The Fountainhead • Atlas Shrugged
Non-fiction For the New Intellectual • The Virtue of Selfishness • Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal • Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology • The Romantic Manifesto • Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution • Philosophy: Who Needs It


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