{"id":136,"date":"2019-05-15T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=136"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:56:10","slug":"the-virtue-of-selfishness-ayn-rands-ethics-of-egoism-in-your-own-life-by-elan-journo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/the-virtue-of-selfishness-ayn-rands-ethics-of-egoism-in-your-own-life-by-elan-journo\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Virtue of Selfishness&#8221;?  Ayn Rand&#8217;s Ethics of Egoism in Your Own Life by Elan Journo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayn Rand held that an individual\u2019s pursuit of \u201chis own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.\u201d Fifty years ago, Rand published The Virtue of Selfishness, a groundbreaking book laying out her ethics of rational egoism. What does it look like to be selfish in your own life? In this introductory talk, Elan Journo discusses Rand\u2019s conception of morality and sketches what it looks like in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded May 7, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand held that an individual\u2019s pursuit of \u201chis own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.\u201d Fifty years ago, Rand published The Virtue of Selfishness, a groundbreaking book laying out her ethics of rational egoism. What does it look like to be selfish in your own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[7,79,14,89,13,37,12,15,473,11],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","category-uncategorized","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ayn-rand-institute","tag-egoism","tag-elan-journo","tag-ethics","tag-morality","tag-philosophy","tag-selfishness","tag-the-virtue-of-selfishness","tag-virtue","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}