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- Enlightened egoism is the conviction that benefitting others—acting to increase their happiness—can serve the egoist’s self-interest just as much as the egoist’s acts directly in favor of him or herself.
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Apr 17, 2022 · Enlightened egoism is the conviction that benefitting others—acting to increase their happiness—can serve the egoist’s self-interest just as much as the egoist’s acts directly in favor of him or herself. As opposed to altruism, which claims that it’s our ethical responsibility to serve others, the enlightened egoist’s generosity is ...
Aug 14, 2023 · Enlightened self-interest (ESI) emerged as a motivating construct to explain engagement in individual or firm-level behaviors that do not provide immediate, quantifiable benefit to those undertaking them.
May 15, 2018 · First, I shall look at the (multivalent and not immediately perspicuous) terms ‘egoism’ and ‘altruism,’ in order to arrive at working definitions of them. Secondly, with these definitions in place, I shall canvas the evidence for an egoistic interpretation of Aristotle’s ethical theory.
- Tom Peter Stephen Angier
- tom.angier@uct.ac.za
- 2018
Definition. Enlightened self-interest was a concept that Alexis de Tocqueville discussed in his work Democracy in America. The notion he held was that Americans voluntarily join together in associations to further the interests of the group and, thereby, to serve their own interests.
Aug 15, 2008 · Objectivist ethics is a form of enlightened egoism. It does not define self- interest in terms of subjective desire, nor of exclusively material goods such as wealth.
Nov 4, 2002 · Egoism can be a descriptive or a normative position. Psychological egoism, the most famous descriptive position, claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. Normative forms of egoism make claims about what one ought to do, rather than describe what one does do.
Dec 17, 2012 · Enlightened self-interest means that everybody wins. The recognition that being committed to another’s well being is personally fulfilling is the basis of a cycle of mutual generosity that...
