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Episode: Why Selfishness is a Virtue | Onkar Ghate & Tara Smith | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published on February 27, 2019

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand's Ethics Cover

Egoism Without Permission: The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand's Ethics

by Tara Smith

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and one of the things I talk about I have a book which talks a lot about rands version of selfish virtues

Tara Smith mentions her own book about Ayn Rand's concept of selfish virtues.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cover

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

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if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right

The speaker uses the Harry Potter series and its author, J.K. Rowling, as an example of someone creating value and benefiting from it (win-win scenario).

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The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

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we're going to be talking about selfishness and the virtue of selfishness

The host introduces the topic of the episode, explicitly mentioning 'the virtue of selfishness,' which is the title of a well-known book by Ayn Rand.

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