Name: The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet)
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780451163936

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Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Publisher

Signet Book

Year

1964

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.7x10.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN

0451163931

ISBN13

9780451163936

Edition No.

0050

Synopsis "The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) "

A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works--Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged--have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality--the ethics of rational self-interest--that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy 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. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold!

Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand (St. Petersburg, 1905; New York, 1982) was a writer and philosopher born in Russia and naturalized American. After publishing her first two novels, We the Living (1936) and Anthem (1938), she achieved success with The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), her magnum opus. In these works, Rand developed her philosophy, known as Objectivism, in which she concretizes her original vision of man as «a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute».

Later, she would establish the theoretical foundations of this philosophy in her non-fiction books: Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979), The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), and The Romantic Manifesto (1969).

Her legacy continues to be enormously influential among conservatives and libertarians, both in the United States and around the world, because it directly confronts the acquired cultural inertia, challenging the axis «mysticism-altruism-collectivism» and replacing it with a philosophy based on: «reason-selfishness-capitalism».

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Mariana Cassin Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Es mas chico de lo que pense, pero es un libro complicado de conseguir asi que genial que este disponible
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Rodrigo Iturrieta Wednesday, February 02, 2022
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Un clásico, la calidad es económica
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Anonymous User Thursday, October 30, 2025
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Lo he vuelto a leer después de algunas décadas... Rand se presenta con toda su fuerza lógica e ideológica... Nos hace pensar y revelarnos contra los prejuicios de las ideas dominantes
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