HERE SETS FORTH THE MORAL PRINCIPLES OF OBJECTIVISM, THE PHILOSOPHY THAT HOLDS MAN'S LIFE, THE LIFE PROPER TO A RATIONAL BEING, AS THE STANDARD OF MORAL VALUES-AND REGARDS ALTRUISM AS IN COMPATIBLE WITH MAN'S NATURE, WITH THE CREATIVE REQUIREMENTS OF HIS SURVIVAL, AND WITH A FREE SOCIETY.
The architect of this new ethics first expressed her challenging and controversial ideas in her bestselling novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. In this important work she defines the Objectivist viewpoint on moral issues and on many problems of our time such as: the validation of egoism - the evil of self, sacrifice-the nature of government-individual rights-racism-the psychology of socialism. Included here too are five articles by the coeditor of The Objectivist Newsletter, psychological theorist Nathaniel Branden.