egoism
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The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
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Baier believes that ethical egoism fails to provide the moral guidance and arbitration that it necessitates.
But President Xi Jinping appeared to be taking a direct shot at Mr. Trump last week when he said, “In the contemporary world, any unilateralism, protectionism or extreme egoism will never work.”
But President Xi Jinping appeared to be taking a direct shot at Trump last week when he said, “In the contemporary world, any unilateralism, protectionism or extreme egoism will never work.”
"An Empirical Basis for Psychological Egoism," Journal of Philosophy 61: 530-537 Further, they claim psychological egoism posits a theory that is a more parsimonious explanation than competing theories.
Ethical egoism does not bother itself with how others receive charity, irrespective of how degraded it makes them feel.
Contributions to modern psychology Psychoanalysis Whether or not Sigmund Freud was a psychological egoist, his concept of the pleasure principle borrowed much from psychological egoism and psychological hedonism in particular.