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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Sixty Years of The Virtue of Selfishness
Description: https://youtu.be/wgKovwvgEs0
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In this episode of New Ideal, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver discuss the enduring value of The Virtue of Selfishness, a collection of Ayn Rand’s essays on ethics, on its sixtieth anniversary.
Among the topics covered:
Why Ayn Rand wrote and collected the essays in The Virtue of Selfishness;
How Ayn Rand’s essays address questions central to living a good life;
How Ayn Rand presented a radical new way to think about morality;
How Ayn Rand challenges conventional ways of thinking about morality;
How Ayn Rand provided novel ways of evaluating many mora...