rational selfishness

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|philosophy}} Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.
2. The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.

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