Sixty Years of The Virtue of Selfishness

Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver discuss the enduring value of The Virtue of Selfishness, a collection of Ayn Rand’s essays on ethics, on its sixtieth anniversary.

Among the topics covered:

• Why Ayn Rand wrote and collected the essays in The Virtue of Selfishness;
• How Ayn Rand’s essays address questions central to living a good life;
• How Ayn Rand presented a radical new way to think about morality;
• How Ayn Rand challenges conventional ways of thinking about morality;
• How Ayn Rand provided novel ways of evaluating many moral issues.

Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay collection The Virtue of Selfishness.

The podcast was recorded on October 8 and released on October 18, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch archived podcasts here.