The first theory says that human beings always act egoistically, the second that they ought to act egoistically.
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All these competencies can of course be used individually or egoistically.
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This explanation involves subscribing to a view that the perpetrators act egoistically.
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Rather than asserting himself egoistically upon experience, James surrenders to it, is accessible to it.
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The objection, however, lies precisely in this attempt to explain my concern for my beloved egoistically.
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I feel egoistically happy that our criticism of the AKP was neither an overreaction nor an exaggeration.
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Ethical hedonism can be universalist, me-and-my-near-and-dear egocentric, or egoistically focused just on one's own pleasure.
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Away from the eyes of the group, however, we also have a tendency to behave egoistically — almost as if in rebellion.
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The same seems to go for rational egoism: I am sufficiently motivated to act egoistically without any belief in the truth of rational egoism.
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He took this decision in spite of serious reservations of the US military, which egoistically insisted that it had the will and capacity to turn sure defeat into victory.
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4 As conceived by William Godwin, it requires individuals to act in accordance with their own judgments and to allow every other individual the same liberty. Conceived as egoistically by Max Stirner, it implies that the unique one who truly owns himself recognizes no duties to others. Within the limit of his might, he does what is right for him.Outhwaite, William & Tourain, Alain (Eds.). (2003).
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Currently, this hypothesis remains untested, as gender differences in modern societies have not been compared with those in hunter-gatherer societies. Cattell 16PF Domains. (Based on data in Del Giudice, M., Booth, T., & Irwing, P., 2012) A personality trait directly linked to emotion and empathy where gender differences exist (see below) is scored on the Machiavellianism scale. Individuals who score high on this dimension are emotionally cool; this allows them to detach from others as well as values, and act egoistically rather than driven by affect, empathy or morality.
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The Mudha, literally the ignorant, is one who egoistically conceives that the body or caste or Ashrama or actor or enjoyer or such is what matters. Tapas, states the text is the act of burning in the knowledge that the unchanging truth is Brahman and the universe is Maya. Demoniacal is that, asserts the Upanishad, where one practices austerity and Japa (muttering mantras) while simultaneously living a life that harbors "cruel desire, hatred, pain and hypocrisy" of any kind. Sannyasi, defines the text, is that person who has given up "I and mine", who is convinced that "I am Brahman" and everyone, everything is Brahman, there are no multitudes, there is just oneness.
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If a union [Verein] has crystallized into a society, it has ceased to be a coalition [Vereinigung]; for coalition is an incessant self-uniting; it has become a unitedness, come to a standstill, degenerated into a fixity; it is — dead as a union, it is the corpse of the union or the coalition, i.e. it is —society, community. [...] You bring into a union your whole power, your competence, and make yourself count; in a society you are employed, with your working power; in the former you live egoistically, in the latter humanly, i.e. religiously, as a "member in the body of this Lord”; to a society you owe what you have, and are in duty bound to it, are — possessed by "social duties"; a union you utilize, and give it up undutifully and unfaithfully when you see no way to use it further".
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