Ctnost sobectví - Nové pojetí egoismu – Randová Ayn (2024)

We generally consider selfless help to be the highest moral value. The debate then focuses on questions of whom we should help or how great a sacrifice is necessary. However, the morality of self-sacrifice does not address what values a person should pursue and what is in their own interest. It is only concerned with the idea that the benefits of what a person creates should go to others, not to themselves. Ayn Rand fundamentally challenges this approach in her essay 'The Objectivist Ethics' and presents us with a morality oriented towards life, not its sacrifice. She shows what it means to act in one's own interest. It is not acting at the expense of others; rather, it is the only way that rational interests of individuals in society can be aligned. For her, selfishness is not whimsical, instinctive behavior, but a consistent, diligent, and lasting contemplation of how to project moral principles into everyday situations and act accordingly. Rand fills the concept of selfishness with entirely new content: rationally understood selfishness is the only morality that is consistent with human life.