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The Virtue of Selfishness is a 1964 collection of essays by Ayn Rand, with contributions by Nathaniel Branden. It sets out the Objectivist account of ethics, arguing that rational self-interest should guide moral action and rejecting self-sacrifice as a universal duty. In Rand's usage, selfishness m...
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Influential Objectivist essay collection, popular among libertarians, but academically marginal and widely criticized as oversimplified.
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Who Is Ayn Rand? is a 1962 introductory book by Nathaniel Branden and Barbara Branden. It presents an overview of Ayn Rand's novels, including The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and explains core ideas associated with Objectivism, the philosophical movement developed around her work. The short boo...
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Objectivist introduction valued by adherents, but limited independent critical standing and narrow philosophical reception.
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