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The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

by Ayn Rand

Published for the first time: 1/1/1961

173 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Genres: Economics, Psychology, Politics, Nonfiction, Essays, Philosophy, Classics

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

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