Search results for "Selfishness" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • sensuality, neologisms, and ostentatious selfishness qualifies as futurism. Despite their differences, the group briefly united in 1914. Unfortunately ...
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  • that humans are naturally inclined towards selfishness and evil, and that if these inclinations are not curbed, human societies would devolve into ...
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  • the picture of venality, delusion, fear, and selfishness that Arendt briefly presented. This connection between complicity with political evil ...
    24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
  • did not fully understand the problem of selfishness in human nature which has to date prevented the emergence of such a world of peace and prosperity ...
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  • and a host of other factors, encompassing selfishness, arrogance, aggression, and greed. ===Death=== On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a ...
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  • fanatical, enthusiasm rather than selfishness and jealousy, motivated his activities during this period." Soon, David turned his critical ...
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  • to man a charter for the exercise of tyranny and selfishness, pride and arrogance, lust and brutal violence. It has robbed woman of essential rights, ...
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  • circumstances often as a result of the selfishness of others, must be assisted—not by handouts, but by parental-type support that enables them ...
    26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
  • of human nature such as greed and selfishness that generally work against ... of human nature such as greed and selfishness that generally work against ...
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  • of David as a man of flaws such as greed, lust, selfishness, and his alienation from God, the falling apart of his family is a distinctly twentieth century ...
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  • modern society to be a mark of effeminacy and selfishness. Stevenson said, "In one word, Thoreau was a skulker." However, English novelist ...
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  • It is only when human nature changes from selfishness to caring for others and society as a whole that the problems inherent in taxation can ...
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  • It is only when human nature changes from selfishness to caring for others and society as a whole that the problems inherent in taxation can be ...
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  • and that acting out of self-interest and even selfishness are not contrary to moral action, is illustrated in his internal reasons for action argument ...
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  • recreation, and the celebration of selfishness and pleasure. Perhaps the most prominent spokesman for Satanism in recent years has been Anton ...
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  • which results from fallen human nature and selfishness, into a normative solution and justification for extermination of enemies and theft of property ...
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  • It is doomed to self destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism… is the only way of human life." ...
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  • society to which both belong. The result of such selfishness is the breakdown of harmonious interactions or the initiation of aggressive and destructive ...
    32 KB (4,807 words) - 18:58, 15 May 2020
  • entirely with morality nor advocate wholesale selfishness or degeneracy. Instead he clearly laid out criteria for the acceptability of a cruel action ...
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  • as the ultimate irrationality and evil, pure selfishness, a dangerous precedent, madness, and pathology. Conceptions of suicide clearly are framed ...
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