Egoism is a philosophy concerned with the role of the self, or ego, as the motivation and goal of one's own action. Different theories of egoism encompass...
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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...
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philosophy, ethical egoism is the normative position that moral agents ought to act in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims...
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Egoist anarchism (redirect from Egoism (anarchism))
Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened as simply egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner...
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Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims...
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Egoism (typeset as EGOISM) is an Australian dream pop band from Sydney. The band was formed in 2015, and currently consists of co-lead vocalists Scout...
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The Ego and Its Own (redirect from Dialectical egoism)
instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism. It is considered a major influence on the development of anarchism, existentialism...
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Rule egoism is the doctrine under which an individual evaluates the optimal set of rules according to whether conformity to those rules bring the most...
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Postmodernism (redirect from Post-egoism)
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. What they...
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Individualism (section Ethical egoism)
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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Max Stirner (section Egoism)
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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reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism and hedonism. In politics, she condemned the initiation...
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French philosopher Auguste Comte in French, as altruisme, for an antonym of egoism. He derived it from the Italian altrui, which in turn was derived from Latin...
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Egotism (category Egoism)
rather than for oneself – and from egoism, the constant pursuit of one's self-interest. Various forms of "empirical egoism" have been considered consistent...
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of the concept of egoism for an understanding of Modernism, with criticism on the ideology of egomania. Nordau distinguished egoism from the egomania...
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Free and open-source software (section Skewed prioritization, ineffectiveness and egoism of developers)
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...
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The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...
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Individualist anarchism (section Egoism)
individualist anarchism Josiah Warren (sovereignty of the individual), Max Stirner (egoism), Lysander Spooner (natural law), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (mutualism), Henry...
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Left-wing market anarchism Social anarchism Anarcho-capitalism Egoism Ethical egoism Rational egoism Existentialism Hedonism Humanism Individualist feminism...
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Claude Adrien Helvétius (section Psychological egoism)
Claude Adrien Helvétius (/hɛlˈviːʃəs/; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur...
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Philosophy of Egoism in the May 1890 to September 1891 in issues of the publication Egoism. James L. Walker published the work The Philosophy of Egoism in which...
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Brahman Demiurge Divine simplicity Egoism Holy Spirit Misotheism Pandeism Personal god Process theology Supreme Being Unmoved mover God in Abrahamic religions...
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- Ecumenism - Education, philosophy of - Egalitarianism - Egocentrism - Egoism - Egoist anarchism - Eleatics - Eliminative materialism - Emanationism -...
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Objectivism (category Egoism)
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 that...
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Narcissism (category Egoism)
Narcissism is a self–centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense...
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Desmond. First published in 1896, it advocates amorality, consequentialism, egoism, and psychological hedonism. The author sums up his work as follows: This...
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"ethical egoism" was introduced by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in his book The Methods of Ethics, written in 1874. Sidgwick compared egoism to the philosophy...
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Brahman Demiurge Divine simplicity Egoism Holy Spirit Misotheism Pandeism Personal god Process theology Supreme Being Unmoved mover God in Abrahamic religions...
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his might over it." According to Wendy McElroy: In adopting Stirnerite egoism (1886), Tucker rejected natural rights which had long been considered the...
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Consequentialism (section Ethical egoism)
Rule consequentialism exists in the forms of rule utilitarianism and rule egoism. Various theorists are split as to whether the rules are the only determinant...
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