Rational egoism (also called rational selfishness) is the principle that an action is rational if and only if it maximizes one's self-interest. As such...

pragmatic judgment it is termed rational egoism and where it is held to be a moral judgment it is termed ethical egoism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...

self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest. Ethical egoism holds, therefore...

several other normative forms of egoism, such as ethical egoism and rational egoism. A specific form of psychological egoism is psychological hedonism, the...

society. The idea of cultural and legislative systems relying on this rational egoism is what the protagonist despises. The Underground Man embraces this...

work "Rationality, Egoism, and Morality, where it was briefly mentioned. Enlightened self-interest Ethical egoism Psychological egoism Rational egoism Rule...

moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (see rational egoism), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one...

perception by using the process of concept formation and inductive logic; rational egoism, that the moral purpose of one's life is the achievement of one's own...

liberty and rights of the individual, society as a social contract between rational individuals, and the beginnings of individualism as a doctrine. Georg Wilhelm...

theories of hard determinism, atheism, materialism, positivism, and rational egoism, while rejecting metaphysics, sentimentalism, and aestheticism. Leading...

Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened as simply egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner...

advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation...

egoism. Dostoevsky posited this dislikable glorifier of self-will as a more realistic portrayal of an egoist than the benign depictions of rational self-interest...

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revolutionary thinkers such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky and became known as rational egoism. The radicals refused to recognize themselves in the novel's pages...

from psychological egoism, which claims that people do only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism which holds merely...

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broadly understood as containing traits of both psychological egoism and rational egoism. Unlike the self-interest described by Ayn Rand, Stirner did not...

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(2009) [1990]. Rational Egoism: A Selective and Critical History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521119962. – Study of rational egoism that focuses...

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psychological egoism, the thesis that humans always act in their own self-interest and that true altruism is impossible. Rational egoism is the view that...

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Proudhon to socialism. Later in his life, Tucker converted to Max Stirner's egoism. Some modern commentators have described Tucker as an anarcho-capitalist...

philosophy stressing the worth of individual selves. Rational egoism, the position that all rational actions are those done in one's self-interest. Legalism...

activity. Baruch Spinoza: Set forth the first analysis of rational egoism, in which the rational interest of self is conformance with pure reason. To Spinoza's...

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authority in the realm of individual conscience, as this was something rational people could not cede to the government for it or others to control. For...

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