One issue concerns how much ethical egoism differs in content from standard moral theories. |
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The brash egoism of 20 years ago has been replaced with a more gracious dignity. |
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His arrogance, egoism and desperate need for womanising, are as well known as his genius. |
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Deliberately to distance oneself from others behind miles of park wall is an act of supreme egoism. |
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The core issue is finding a system for fixing our escalating egoism, which is becoming more evident with each passing generation. |
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That is why, little children, be open to God's love and leave egoism and sin. |
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The egoism of retired presidents to keep the parties that they founded or co-founded immortal will play a significant role. |
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The ability for a couple to marry is based on each one controlling innate egoism and narcissism. |
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Reason, applied consistently, doesn't lead us down a straight path to egoism, much less to capitalism. |
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As long as such a National Assembly exists, the vicious collective egoism will be still spreading in this society. |
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James A. Johnston, the prison's first warden, believed that egoism was the chief failing of recidivists. |
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No doubt there is a spiritual egoism, built on barren ideas concerning oneself with no real practice behind them, that one can easily fall into. |
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Stage fright masks itself as a domineering style, or as coyness, egoism, or pride. |
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In the public sphere, it became a criticism, denoting an excessive egoism and pettiness that precluded a consideration of the greater good. |
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In the language of flowers, the narcissus stands for vanity and egoism. |
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This malevolent spirit of national egoism and Franco-German high-handedness will dog Europe for a long time yet. |
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In the average person, ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life are constant and sustained. |
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We have been asked, that is, to be vigilant so that consciences do not give in to the temptation of egoism, lies and violence. |
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We can see that, unfortunately, egoism and the desire to dominate remain the driving force in international relations. |
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Simpler and manageable decision mechanisms that can be used to counter national egoism. |
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Unselfish and unconditional love and dedication, overcoming of egoism and insecurity, to activate and rebalance our Chakras. |
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We want to ensure that our employees' actions are determined by interest, care and respect, and not by indifference and egoism. |
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This work corrects and transforms egoism into the desire to perform good deeds, as does the Creator. |
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To repeat the words of Robert Schuman, no, Ladies and Gentlemen, in Europe, egoism no longer pays! |
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It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation. |
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When people are made to hear of the social violence that exists in their own communities they can escape the gravitational pull of blinkered egoism and begin to work together. |
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Ben countered that in its teaching that the individual must overcome egoism and the yearnings of self, Kabbalah shows how to put a clamp on one's thoughts. |
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Of course, being well-off does not necessarily breed egoism. |
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It is also time to take stock of inner weaknesses such as egoism. |
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We have families where the parents behave like the kids, families where the kids behave like the parents, families where love rules and families where egoism is king. |
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Humanity must prepare itself for the great and unescapable trials that are coming to bring an end to egoism. |
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In an ironic twist, in some countries of Asia where the living standard is increasing, cultural values are gradually being eroded, leading to egoism and the breakdown of family and social relationships. |
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The corruption also takes place where the ethical value was neglected by the people, for instance, people who commit corruption neglect their dignity and follow their egoism. |
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Bentham and Thomas Hobbes were the only major figures in the history of philosophy to endorse psychological egoism. |
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Our modern pluralistic culture is largely inspired by the principles of individualism, materialism and consumerism, which amount to a recipe for egoism. |
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Indeed, the more people influence me with their opinions, the more diligently I will be able to work on myself, on correcting my egoism, in order to feel the Creator. |
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However, it will be necessary, sooner or later, to overcome artificial barriers to the free movement of people and goods and freedom of establishment, and outdated national egoism. |
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Poverty, wealth, power, ignorance, egoism, absence of public-spiritedness, wastefulness, leisure activities, over-exploitation, pollution, population trends, the price of progress, indecision, financial repercussions. |
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The egoism of Narveson's Hobbesian contract theory is nicely complemented by the individualism of his libertarian outlook. |
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By working on oneself, on this enormous will to receive pleasure for self-gratification, we can attain spiritual heights in proportion to our corrected egoism. |
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It is this old, sin permeated, corrupt world, a world in which there is so much hatred, egoism, oppression, despair and suffering, that will be the object of transformation. |
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As concerns change of attitudes and behaviours, motivations could be traced to environmental egoism and financial concern on the one hand and to personal satisfaction and the need for coherence on the other. |
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Otherwise, this study will turn against us and only increase our egoism. |
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If it becomes an end in itself, detached from reality, it only serves to feed the egoism of the most cynical among the powerful and to enslave the weak. |
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On 13 November 1987, he expressed the hope that relationships of exchange and the mechanism of finance can be reformed before short-sightedness and egoism degenerate into irremediable conflicts. |
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There was a denunciation of the imbalance and egoism that assail Africa. |
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Unlike other forms of consequentialism, such as egoism, utilitarianism considers the interests of all beings equally. |
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Which is why the melding of the charitable impulse with the egoism of the selfie made some of us feel like our brains were exploding under the strain of two opposing forces. |
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He tells the story of democracy since the late 18th century as a conflict between egoism and equality, his code for free-market capitalism and social democracy. |
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I know, Commissioner, that you have done a great deal for the public at large, but the egoism of a number of governments has prevented essential work from being done. |
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Does not God permit human need so that by responding to the needs of others we may learn to free ourselves from our egoism and to practise authentic Gospel love? |
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American spirituality has been shaped and practiced in an environment of utilitarian salvationism, of narcissistic abandon and transcendental egoism. |
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Thus, Parfit uses destructive criticisms of the notion of personal identity to undermine egoism and support his own consequentialist views about ethics. |
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