Philosophy

Whether you believe that acting morally costs or pays depends on your view of morality.

To make selfishness, or self-interest, unpalatable and to promote altruism instead, the majority of philosophers misrepresent self-interest as a package-deal.

How is it possible that business students—some of them with significant business experience—have never heard of the moral code of rational egoism?

Had VW executive grasped the principle of honesty and chosen to follow it, the company’s current mess–ruined reputation, a potential recall of 11 million cars, the cost of fixing them, compensating customers, potential lawsuits, paying fines—could have been avoided.

Only one value can serve as the central purpose in a person’s life: productive work.

Despite the teachings of conventional morality, judging others is a virtue from the perspective of rational egoism.

We Would Not Have Killed 1.7 Million People in our Agrarian Utopia

There is a knee-jerk response to the notion of an individual raising the price of his property during a storm that immediately evokes hostility from most people. Why?

Capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s definition, is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights (including property rights) in which all property is privately owned.”

People are suspicious of self-interest because for every philosopher who has taught and advocated self-interest, there have been multiples of those who have taught its opposite, altruism.