rational selfishness

Noun

 * 1)  Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.
 * 2) The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.
 * 3) * 1870, Francis A Walker, An Oration at the Soldiers' Monument Dedication in North Brookfield, Goddard & Nye.
 * [Society] has arranged all its parts and offices on the principle that a rational selfishness is the best preservative of peace, and the most efficient agent of progress; ...
 * [Society] has arranged all its parts and offices on the principle that a rational selfishness is the best preservative of peace, and the most efficient agent of progress; ...