Noun
concern for your own interests and welfare
Source: WordNetChildish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. Jean Piaget
There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. Jean Piaget
Egocentrism in so far as it means confusion of the ego and the external world, and egocentrism in so far as it means lack of cooperation, constitute one and the same phenomenon. Jean Piaget
Bourgeois morality tries to maintain an illusion of altruism, whereas in all other areas bourgeois thinking has long since assumed a theoretical as well as an economic egocentrism. Peter Sloterdijk
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. Jean Piaget