Selfishness is good! Principles of healthy selfishness

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Christian Bernard. Selfishness is good! Principles of healthy selfishness

Principles of healthy selfishness: why not forget about your own interests?

Why sacrifice yourself?

Altruism as a form of slavery

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In our time, selfishness is no longer called a definitely negative trait, but it concerns mostly progressive members of society. In the mass of its modern society continues to blame the egoists, who care about their own interests, but who are able to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others’ well-being calls the best of the best.

Is this position correct? The answer to this question was tried to formulate in his new book Peter Schwartz, a famous American scientist who held a high post at the Institute of Ain Rand. He managed to debunk a number of myths concerning manifestations of selfishness and to establish that any of us has the right to take care of our own interests and use the resources obtained for our own needs.

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Who put in first place – yourself or others?

Altruists call egoists indifferent people, sometimes even unfeeling. It is believed that people who are called egoists can be interested only in money and the various benefits that they bring, that such metaphysical concepts as love and friendship do not matter to them. And egoism in general leads to misanthropy.

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