The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness

Cover of the 1964 Signet Books edition
Author	Ayn Rand
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Ethics
Publisher	New American Library
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print
Pages	173 (Centennial edition)
ISBN	0-451-16393-1 (Centennial edition)
OCLC	183461

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays by the philosopher Ayn Rand and the writer Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter. 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.