{"id":514,"date":"2021-08-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=514"},"modified":"2021-07-27T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:26:59","slug":"selfishness-starts-here-self-esteem-as-the-gateway-to-successful-egoism-with-tara-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/18\/selfishness-starts-here-self-esteem-as-the-gateway-to-successful-egoism-with-tara-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfishness Starts Here: Self-Esteem as the Gateway to Successful Egoism with Tara Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Alongside purpose and reason, self-esteem is one of the foundational values of the Objectivist ethics. By exploring select facets of self-esteem (such as the sense of one\u2019s worth and of one\u2019s ability that it turns on), this lecture seeks to illuminate the way in which self-esteem is indispensable to a fully selfish and happy life. It should help to sharpen our understanding of exactly what self-esteem is, how it is built, and the value that self-esteem uniquely provides.<br><br>Recorded on May 16, 2020 as part of OCON Live! 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside purpose and reason, self-esteem is one of the foundational values of the Objectivist ethics. By exploring select facets of self-esteem (such as the sense of one\u2019s worth and of one\u2019s ability that it turns on), this lecture seeks to illuminate the way in which self-esteem is indispensable to a fully selfish and happy life&#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":[13,435,436,15],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-happiness","tag-self-esteem","tag-selfishness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}