virtue of selfishness

• Concept of Egoism, 1964, Ayn Rand and the writer (and lover) Nathaniel Branden … Objectivist philosophy themes include the identification and validation of egoism, destructiveness of altruism
• significant Ayn Rand’s influence Nikolay Lossky, his works titles include intuition and phenomenology
• individualism and family life
• selfishness is to make claims upon others
• self-interest versus the common good

linked mentions for "virtue of selfishness":

1. self-interest versus the common good

   those two impulses are mutually exclusive, although certain circumstances allow them to appear complementary extreme self-interest (selfishness,

2. selfishness and altruism

   from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde: exaggerated altruistic virtues original virtue through disobedience selfishness is to