rational selfishness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.
Uncountable
noun
The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness—which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man—..."
- "1870, Francis A Walker, An Oration at the Soldiers' Monument Dedication in North Brookfield, Goddard & Nye. [Society] has arranged all its parts and offices on the principle that a rational selfishness is the best preservative of peace, and the most efficient agent of progress; ..."