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	Objectivism and Thomas Jefferson: Selfishness-1
		The philosophy of selfishness, in fact, replaces a sense of morality which identifies the individual with one's fellow man, and substitutes a rationalization for an exclusive concern with oneself.
		To propose selfishness as the basis of morality is to isolate the individual from others, and can only serve to break up any sense of relationship and community the individual may have.
		Selfishness is its opposite, paraded before the unsuspecting as virtue in order to lead them away from genuine morality.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7842/otj40.htm (2291 words)

	Virtue of Selfishness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the introduction to her collection of essays on ethical philosophy, The Virtue of Selfishness (VOS), Rand writes that the "exact meaning" of selfishness is "concern with one's own interests" (VOS, vii).
		Rand understands, though, that the popular usage of the word, "selfish," is different from the meaning she ascribes to it.
		Thus, many people arrive at the following composite image: selfish people are brutish people who are oblivious to the negative consequences of their actions for their friends and loved ones and who abuse the patience, trust, and good will of all comers to satisfy their petty whims.
	objectivistcenter.org /.../faqs/jraibley_faq-virtue-selfishness.asp (882 words)

	Fearless Philosophy For Free Minds: The Virtue of Selfishness
		Love itself is a selfish emotion particularly when you choose a mate and take him or her to be your spouse.
		As individuals look out for their selfish interest to make money and acquire capital, the ones who can cater to the selfish needs of their customers the best are the most successful.
		Selfishness, on the other hand, has no underlying foundation or justification other than satisfying one’s appetites--for pleasure, for gratification, for adulation or whatever the self wants at the moment.
	fpffressminds.blogspot.com /2005/03/virtue-of-selfishness.html (2331 words)

	The Virtue of Selfishness in Brazil
		As such, selfishness is an anti-social vice and the word 'self' becomes a 'four-letter' word.
		Since selfishness (as she understands it) is serious, rational, principled concern with one's own well-being, it turns out to be a prerequisite for the attainment of the ultimate moral value.
		For her, the truly selfish person is a self-respecting, self-supporting human being who neither sacrifices others to himself nor sacrifices himself to others.
	www.zonalatina.com /Zldata265.htm (539 words)

	The Virtue of Selfishness by Paul Hein
		I cannot, unless I get myself elected to some public office, by virtue of which what is yours presumably becomes mine, as well.
		You can resist this legalized thievery by challenging it in court, but in so doing you are conceding something important: that you will abide by the wishes of the plunderers themselves, which they call "law," and which, by your appeal to the court which they own and operate, you agree to accept.
		Selfishness, in truth, is not an attractive trait, but it is no worse than cupidity, and certainly less than aggressive cupidity.
	www.lewrockwell.com /hein/hein25.html (861 words)

	Amazon.com: The Virtue of Selfishness: Books: Ayn Rand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Selfish, as Rand uses the term, means to act in ones own long-term rational self-interest.
		In the early sixties, when The Virtue of Selfishness hit the market, it was one of the first book-form expositions of Objectivism.
		She explains how the negative connotation of selfishness serves as a package deal to negate the concept of an independent and talented man or woman living their life for their own sake.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451163931?v=glance (2436 words)

	The Selfish Genius: An Essay on the Ethics of Objectivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet selfishness has been given a bad name because it is often associated with selfish actions that eventually yield negative results for all parts involved.
		Ignorance and stupidity led many selfish individuals in the past but also present to selfish actions when these are not the best of choices.
		Rand, Ayn; "The Virtue of Selfishness" (1989 reissue).
	author.senescence.info /thoughts/selfish.html (1211 words)

	Ayn Rand on the Virtue of Selfishness
		Friendship and love are selfish on her view -- not a bad thing, as she sees it, by the way.
		And though this is not a selfish reason, it is probably worth pointing out that if everyone lived as Rand's hypothetical altruist, much that makes the quality of life better -- at least on average -- for humanity as a whole would never be realized.
		It is hard to deny, in other words, that we really do regard selfishness of a certain sort as a virtue, and tend to see people who lack it as lacking self-esteem.
	brindedcow.umd.edu /140/rand.html (2754 words)

	OpenP2P.com -- In Praise of Freeloaders
		Almost without fail, anyone addressing freeloading refers to the aforementioned "Tragedy of the Commons." This is an economic parable illustrating the threat to commonly held resources.
		Since the writings of Adam Smith, literature detailing the workings of free markets has put the selfishness -- or more accurately, the self-interest -- of the individual actor at the center of the system, and the situation with P2P networks is no different.
		Mojo Nation's central thesis about existing file-sharing systems is that some small number of users in those systems choose, through regard for their fellow man, to make available resources that a larger number of freeloaders then take unfair advantage of.
	www.openp2p.com /pub/a/p2p/2000/12/01/shirky_freeloading.html (1516 words)

	Ayn Rand, a Nuisance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rand's selfish heroes and heroines always seemed to be lean, angular, and nattily dressed while running about being brilliant capitalists; her altruistic rogues, on the other hand, always seemed to be weak-chinned, slovenly, or spineless jellyfish carelessly sabotaging the human race with their incompetence.
		In popular usage, the word "selfishness" is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures up is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends, who cares for no living being and pursues nothing but the gratifi- cation of the mindless whims of any immediate moment.
		Rand argued vociferously that it was not a semantic issue at all and that the popular definition besmirched the purity of the concept she wished to convey.
	www.tektonics.org /qt/randayn01.html (3276 words)

	The Ayn Rand Society
		Let's put aside that the author describes Rand's collection of essays, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism as a novel, and that he gives its publication date as 1974 when it is 1964.
		Indeed in the first essay of The Virtue of Selfishness she significantly distances herself from Aristotle on matters of ethical theory; and in the introduction to Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal she insists that the center of her thought is not ethics but epistemology and metaphysics.
		Your author's focus throughout the entry, instead, is on the ethical content of her two later novels, where he reports, usefully, the attractive character of her defense of moral integrity.
	www.aynrandsociety.org /index.html (1527 words)

	noah's lark. human, being.
		And writing a novel is, perhaps, the most selfish of them all; they typically take the most time for a single artist to create, and the longest for someone on the receiving end to digest.
		As selfish as it may be, on this level, to expect anyone to take some smaller amount of time to see what they’ve done in other mediums, the time needed both to write and to read a novel is especially presumptuous.
		It was hard not to think of that this past week, as I’d resumed working on my novel — after having put aside the 50,000+ words of it I finished before leaving California — shortly before Katrina happened.
	noahslark.com /?e=185 (514 words)

	The Ayn Rand Institute: Ayn Rand's Nonfiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Essays on the morality of rational selfishness and the political and social implications of such a moral philosophy.
		The nonfiction excerpts explain Objectivism's fundamental ideas, such as reason, rational selfishness, and laissez-faire capitalism.
		For example, Ayn Rand's essay "Man's Rights" is used to explain the foundations of individual rights and capitalism.
	www.aynrand.org /site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction (1577 words)

	The virtue of selfishness
		Any such policy, as we will see in due course, is destructive not only to the victim, but also to the perpetrator.
		It is condemned as immoral, therefore, by the very principle of selfishness.
		May not be reproduced in any form or manner whatsoever without the express permission of Leonard Peikoff.
	www.peikoff.com /opar/egoism.htm (347 words)

	Human Advancement -- The Virtue of Selfishness
		I believe in selfishness, or at least, to put it another way, I am vehemently offended by any notion of selflessnes, and morally offended when such is described as the way people should act.
		Even if he thought he was doing it selflessly, it was a selfish act, and I applaud him for it.
		It had nothing to do with her, her misfortune, whether or not she deserved to continue in the race, how she would feel about it, or who would end up with the medal.
	www.humanadvancement.net /blog/index.php?itemid=76 (803 words)

	The Virtue of Selfishness -- Achieving Success!
		The first of Thomas Leonard's 28 Attraction Principles is, "Become Incredibly Selfish".
		We must all choose among more opportunities and possibilities than we can possibly pursue, and it is critical to "get" the virtue of very high-level self-care.
		We think of selfishness as mean, petty, and vindictive.
	www.philiphumbert.com /Articles/VirtueofSelfishness.html (753 words)

	virtue of selfishness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I used to think Baljeet was a selfish and self-centered person.
		But today when I spoke to Rohit bhaiya about him, I considered him someone who's so individualistic in his ways that he wouldn't talk to you if he likes it that way.
		Their comments would definately pertain to the negative meaning of the word.
	o3.indiatimes.com /bitwiser/archive/2004/11/14/24346.aspx (299 words)

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	"The Virtue of Selfishness," Nick Gaetano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love-because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values.
		The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
	www.cordair.com /Gaetano/selfishness.aspx (136 words)

	America faces the virtue of selfishness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That is the only kind of foreign policy that the nouvelle cuisine inhabitants of "City-State North America" will tolerate.
		The twin threats of disease and terrorism, along with the narcissism and conformity of post-modern suburban life, will allow for only the most selfish pragmatism toward the outside world.
		Keep in mind that U.S. society has a low birth rate, and (unlike Europe) a deeply embedded distrust of central governments.
	www.tcp.com /~ether/articles/america-selfishness.html (1181 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Virtue of Selfishness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By all accounts Ayn Rand was a weird and rather mean person, and her theories about knowledge were complete rubbish, but this book makes some good points.
		Rather than being a book with chapters, it is a selection of articles which cover various questions, such as what selfishness is, the ethics of charity and voluntary help, the false dichotomy of altruism and selfishness, and what the theory of Objectivism actually is.
		This is a good place to start to learn about the philosophy of objectivism as it concentrates on the philosophy itself rather than applying it to real-world examples.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0451163931 (1087 words)

	Dowling College Spring 2003 PHL042A Ethics
		Summarize in your own words Hobbes' evidence that people are selfish and ready to use violence.
		Why does Stone think it is false that management has made a promise to shareholders to maximize the shareholder's profits?
		What, according to Aristotle, are the two kinds of virtue?
	alien.dowling.edu /~cperring/phl042s03.html (2542 words)

	The Objectivism Store -- The Virtue of Selfishness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Objectivism Store -- The Virtue of Selfishness
		Ayn Rand's Non-fiction - The Virtue of Selfishness
		The Objectivist view of ethics regards selfishness as neither "sacrificing yourself for others, nor sacrificing others for yourself." This collection of essays includes "the Objectivist Ethics"—the best single statement of Ayn Rand's ethical views.
	www.objectivismstore.com /pc-23-3-virtue-of-selfishness.aspx (89 words)

	Amazon.com: The Virtue of Selfishness: Books: Ayn Rand,C. M. Herbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amazon.com: The Virtue of Selfishness: Books: Ayn Rand,C. Herbert
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		In fact, if you think about it: love IS selfish.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786119551?v=glance (2410 words)

	Ayn Rand Books
		"Man must choose his actions, values, and goals by the standard of that which is proper to man—in order to achieve, maintain, fulfill and enjoy that ultimate value, that end in itself, which is his own life." [Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, "The Objectivist Ethics," page 25.]
		"The standard of value of the Objectivist ethics—the standard by which one judges what is good or evil—is man's life, or; that which is required for man's survival qua man." [Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, "The Objectivist Ethics," page 23.]
		Everything that was ever right with America can be directly attributed to the extent its government and it policies were consistent with the principles of Capitalism described in this book.
	usabig.com /autonomist/book_rand.html (776 words)

	The Virtue of Selfishness
		Note: Essays that critique Rand's ethical theories in general are not included here, only essays that comment specifically on this book or one of its chapters.
		Additional keywords: Ann Rand, Anne Rand, Ayn Rad, Ayn Ran, Any Rand, virtues of selfishness, cult of moral greyness
		The philosophy of Ayn Rand, a twentieth-century novelist and philosopher, is known as Objectivism.
	www.noblesoul.com /orc/books/rand/vos.html (366 words)

	The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
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