{"id":745,"date":"2023-05-24T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=745"},"modified":"2023-06-09T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:39:35","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-selfish-ayn-rands-vision-of-rational-egoism-by-tara-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-selfish-ayn-rands-vision-of-rational-egoism-by-tara-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Be Selfish? \u2013 Ayn Rand\u2019s Vision of Rational Egoism by Tara Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>\u201cGive back,\u201d \u201cServe something higher than yourself,\u201d \u201cPut others first\u201d \u2013 this is the wisdom of the ages. Raised on these platitudes from religious and secular quarters alike, most people assume that to be moral simply is to be selfless. Ayn Rand rejects this assumption. She champions the virtue of selfishness. But what does that mean? This lecture highlights some of the key elements of rational egoism to illuminate what it is and is not. By refuting common misconceptions as well as indicating what genuine self-interest demands, it paves the way for the healthy exercise of selfishness and the happiness that it makes possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Handout link: hubs.la\/Q01KqQZj0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded live at Ayn Rand Con Europe 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGive back,\u201d \u201cServe something higher than yourself,\u201d \u201cPut others first\u201d \u2013 this is the wisdom of the ages. Raised on these platitudes from religious and secular quarters alike, most people assume that to be moral simply is to be selfless. Ayn Rand rejects this assumption. She champions the virtue of selfishness. But what does that&#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":[7,10,216,37,66,113,15],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ayn-rand","tag-individualism","tag-life","tag-morality","tag-objectivism","tag-reason","tag-selfishness","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}