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The Problem With "Selfishness"

The Problem With "Selfishness"

Marsha Enright
December 13, 2012
5
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Atlas Summit 2012 -- In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand exhorted readers to put the word "selfishness" to its true and proper use: to describe the ethic of rational self-interest. Fifty-one years later, it's still an uphill battle to get others to accept this use of "selfishness." Education pioneer and author Marsha Familaro Enright examines the semantic, conceptual and cultural problems with following Rand's admonition and suggests alternatives.


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Marsha Enright
About the author:
Marsha Enright

Marsha Familaro Enright is the Founder and Program Director of Reliance College, Founder and President of the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute. Marsha and colleagues are developing a new college program informed by the Montessori Method and the Great Books, in which the methodology develops the characteristics needed to live in a free society and the curriculum spans the entire range of ideas—including those of the usually-neglected classical liberalism and free society thinkers (www.rifinst.org). She also founded and is President of the Council Oak Montessori School, as well as the New Intellectual Forum discussion club in Chicago. Marsha has her B.A. in Biology from Northwestern University and her M.A. in Psychology from The New School. She has published research articles on psychology, neuropsychology, human development, creativity and optimal experience, literature, culture, history, politics and philosophy, available at www.fountainheadinstitute.com.

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