"Selfishness is a profoundly philosophical, conceptual achievement. Anyone who holds a tribal lone wolf as an image of selfishness, is merely confessing the perceptual nature of his own mental functioning.” Ayn Rand, "Selfishness Without a Self”
In this essay, Ayn Rand dives into what it means, and requires, to be truly selfish.
Don Watkins and James Valliant discuss.