{"id":177,"date":"2019-08-28T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2019-08-27T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:55:21","slug":"is-selfishness-the-root-of-all-evil-by-keith-lockitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/28\/is-selfishness-the-root-of-all-evil-by-keith-lockitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Selfishness the Root of All Evil? by Keith Lockitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>If there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on today, it\u2019s that&nbsp;<strong>selfishness is bad<\/strong>. From day one, we\u2019ve been told, \u201cdon\u2019t be selfish\u201d or \u201cselfishness is the root of all evil.\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>But what if the way we think about selfishness is completely wrong?<br>&nbsp;<br>What if our conventional understanding of what it means to be selfish is totally confused\u2014and it\u2019s not just that we\u2019re mistaken, but we\u2019re mistaken in a way that actually makes it harder for us to achieve a happy, fulfilling life and a better world?<br>&nbsp;<br>Throughout history, various thinkers have challenged us to rethink conventional wisdom. Copernicus and Galileo challenged our view of a motionless earth. Darwin challenged our understanding of how all of life\u2019s species developed.<br><br>Ayn Rand, the writer and philosopher famous for her bestselling novels&nbsp;<em>The Fountainhead<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>, was a thinker who challenged our conventional wisdom about morality.<br>&nbsp;<br>She was a moral revolutionary in the same way that Galileo and Darwin were scientific revolutionaries.<br><br>Join Keith Lockitch and explore Ayn Rand\u2019s moral revolution. He\u2019ll be addressing one of life\u2019s big questions: Is selfishness the root of all evil?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on today, it\u2019s that&nbsp;selfishness is bad. From day one, we\u2019ve been told, \u201cdon\u2019t be selfish\u201d or \u201cselfishness is the root of all evil.\u201d&nbsp;But what if the way we think about selfishness is completely wrong?&nbsp;What if our conventional understanding of what it means to be selfish is&#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],"tags":[16,7,13,499,435,10,216,37,196,15],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-altruism","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ethics","tag-evil","tag-happiness","tag-individualism","tag-life","tag-morality","tag-self-interest","tag-selfishness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}