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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, except for \"The Objectivist Ethics\", which was a paper Rand delivered at the University of Wisconsin during a symposium on \"Ethics in Our Time\". The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand's Objectivist philosophy. Some of its themes include the identification and validation of egoism as a rational code of ethics, the destructiveness of altruism, and the nature of a proper government. The book is also notable for its original formulation of the non-aggression principle. In an essay called \"Man's Rights,\" Rand wrote: \"The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships. ... In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.\""@en }

• The_Virtue_of_Selfishness abstract "The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, except for \"The Objectivist Ethics\", which was a paper Rand delivered at the University of Wisconsin during a symposium on \"Ethics in Our Time\". The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand's Objectivist philosophy. Some of its themes include the identification and validation of egoism as a rational code of ethics, the destructiveness of altruism, and the nature of a proper government. The book is also notable for its original formulation of the non-aggression principle. In an essay called \"Man's Rights,\" Rand wrote: \"The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships. ... In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.\"".