The Virtue of Selfishness
work by Rand
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contribution to ethics
- In ethics: Ethical egoism
…Atlas Shrugged (1957) and in The Virtue of Selfishness (1965), a collection of essays, was a rather confusing mixture of appeals to self-interest and suggestions of the great benefits to society that would result from unfettered self-interested behaviour. Underlying this account was the tacit assumption that genuine self-interest cannot be…
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discussed in biography
- In Ayn Rand: The Collective and the Nathaniel Branden Institute
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966) were drawn mostly from lectures and newsletter articles.
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