Ayn Rand on Selfishness

From the BBC Radio 4 series about life s big questions We have a duty to be selfish and any other behaviour is irrational. These were the thoughts of Ayn Rand, RussianAmerican novelist of the 1950s. Rands approach, which she labelled Objectivism, starts from the claim that there is an objective reality out there and that human beings understand it through reason not emotion. There is no God. We survive by pursuing our own rational selfinterest. Narrated by Steph