Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand presents The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism Author: Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand Narrator: C. M. Hébert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The provocative title of Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness introduces an equally provocative thesis about ethics. Traditional ethics has always been suspicious of self-interest, praising acts that are selfless in intent and calling acts that are motivated by self-interest amoral or immoral. Ayn Rand’s view is exactly the opposite. This collection of nineteen essays is an effective summary of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, which holds the value of the individual over and above that of the state or any other collective. The thread running through all of the essays is Rand’s definition of selfishness as “rational self-interest,” with the idea that one has the right to assure one’s own survival, to pursue happiness, and to own the fruits of one’s labor without having to sacrifice any of these to others against one’s will.