{"id":743,"date":"2023-05-17T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=743"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:52:56","slug":"the-evil-of-altruism-by-onkar-ghate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/the-evil-of-altruism-by-onkar-ghate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil of Altruism by Onkar Ghate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Everyone knows that altruism \u2014 selfless sacrifice for the sake of others \u2014 is the essence of virtue, right? But what if our understanding of the true meaning of \u201caltruism\u201d and \u201csacrifice\u201d is completely mistaken? What if these ideas are actually destructive and harmful? From Ayn Rand\u2019s perspective, our whole way of thinking about morality needs to be radically rethought.<br><br>Recorded live at Ayn Rand Con Europe 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that altruism \u2014 selfless sacrifice for the sake of others \u2014 is the essence of virtue, right? But what if our understanding of the true meaning of \u201caltruism\u201d and \u201csacrifice\u201d is completely mistaken? What if these ideas are actually destructive and harmful? From Ayn Rand\u2019s perspective, our whole way of thinking about morality&#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":[16,7,13,10,66,12,15],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-altruism","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ethics","tag-individualism","tag-objectivism","tag-philosophy","tag-selfishness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}