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
• Ayn Rand is a pen name of Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, Peterburg, Russian Empire);
• Ayn Rand. Objectivism’s central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one’s life is the pursuit of one’s own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire (fn) capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans’ metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
• check her “The Art of Fiction / Nonfiction” lectures
• 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