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The Virtue of Selfishness

Overview

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays by the Russian-born American philosopher Ayn Rand and the Canadian-American writer Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter. The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand's Objectivist philosophy. 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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Philosophers who discussed The Virtue of Selfishness

• Ayn Rand
• Allan Gotthelf

Related ideas

• Chris Matthew Sciabarra
• Self-help
• Random House
• Nathaniel Branden
• Atlas Shrugged
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Christopher Hitchens
• Adolf Hitler
• Altruism
• Ayn Rand
• YouTube
• Ethical egoism
• Existentialism
• Chandran Kukathas
• Douglas B. Rasmussen
• Objectivist periodicals

Place in the tradition

Part of Ethical egoism.

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