“ The first essay is ‘The Objectivist Ethics' and here’s a quote from it to give you a taste of Ayn Rand’s thinking: ‘The basic social principal of the Objectivist ethics is that just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is and end in himself not the means to ends or the welfare of others – and that therefore, that man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. To live for his own sake means that the achievement of his own happiness is man’s highest moral purpose’. ”