| Ethical hedonism can be universalist, me-and-my-near-and-dear egocentric, or egoistically focused just on one's own pleasure. |
| The first theory says that human beings always act egoistically, the second that they ought to act egoistically. |
| The objection, however, lies precisely in this attempt to explain my concern for my beloved egoistically. |
| All these competencies can of course be used individually or egoistically. |
| The same seems to go for rational egoism: I am sufficiently motivated to act egoistically without any belief in the truth of rational egoism. |
| I feel egoistically happy that our criticism of the AKP was neither an overreaction nor an exaggeration. |
