Ayn Rand
Novelist and philosopher (1905 to 1982) who founded Objectivism; The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) set out her ethics of rational self-interest.
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Their wordsThe basic political principle of the Objectivist ethics is: no man may initiate the use of physical force against others.
↗The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsThere is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery.
↗The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsRacism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
↗The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsThe Objectivist ethics holds that the actor must always be the beneficiary of his action and that man must act for his own rational self-interest.
↗The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet, 1964)archive.org All 4 from this book