Ayn Rand wrote volumes urging people to be selfish.
What? Arenât people already too selfish? Just do whatever you feel like, be a thoughtless jerk, and exploit people to get ahead. Easy, right? Except that acting thoughtlessly and victimizing others, Rand claims, is not in your self-interest.
What Rand advocates is an approach to life thatâs unlike anything youâve ever heard before. Selfishness, in her philosophy, means:
At the dawn of our lives, writes Rand, we âseek a noble vision of manâs nature and of lifeâs potential.â Randâs philosophy is that vision. Explore it for yourself.
Objectivism, a philosophy for living on earth.
I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.
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