rational selfishness

/R AE1 SH AH0 N AH0 L S EH0 L F IH0 SH N AH0 S/
noun
  1. 1

    The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.

  2. 2

    (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.

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