Antonym: altruism. Similar words: go in for, go into, ongoing, forego, noise, hoist, allegory, patois. Meaning: ['egəʊɪzəm] n. 1. (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality 2. concern for your own interests and welfare.
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(31) The perennial conflict between national egoism and international solidarity becomes more and more visible.
(32) Both the ontological egoism by Descartes and the functional egoism by Kant reveal this tendency.
(33) She had rightly guessed that Mr. Gryce's egoism was a thirsty soil.
(34) Nietzsche' s Dionysiac theory stresses the Bacchic spirit of breaking through all barriers and obstacles , thus highlighting the physical dimension of egoism and desire.
(35) In this way, people will naturally dismiss egoism, desires for material wealth, extravagance and wastage.
(36) However, they are also readily self-conceited, because the existence of the spirit of egoism in today's society.
(37) At last, the paper gives some causes to lead problems, for example, historical, community egoism, economical and technological factors, and so on.
(38) After all, Sidgwick left the dualism of practical reason for us. He failed to put utilitarianism and egoism together, although he succeeded in unifying intuitionism and utilitarianism.
(39) Egoism and self - interest were his soul, they would rot with his body in the earth.
(40) The money worship, hedonism, egoism all there is development with pragmatism in the social each realm.
(41) The individual selfish departmentalism, rational egoism, false collectivism,(www.Sentencedict.com) and the like cannot be the contemporary orientation of ethical value on account of their various limitations.
(42) So the psychological lure of egoism as a theory of human action is partly explained by a certain humility or skepticism people have about their own or others' motives.
(43) People shelve the out - of - fashion moral icon and espouse the philosophy of egoism.
(44) Altruism is a rather new word for unselfishness, coined by 19th century humanist philosopher Auguste Comte as an alternative to egoism, which means putting oneself above all else.
(45) Teachers'right-oriented will probably lead to egoism and mammonism which hinders teachers'professional ethics construction .
(46) The great object of all social teaching should be to promote supremacy of altruism over egoism.
(47) The problem and the solution reside in us by exiting our egoism and embracing altruism.
(48) In Schopenhauer's opinion, the egoism is a starting point and his compassionateness ethics is to outspread, the tallest bourn is the mysterious doctrine of abstinency .
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