Search results for "Selfishness" - New World Encyclopedia
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- others. As a result of the Human Fall, selfishness has guided human behavior ... to act based on these internal values selfishness can be overcome and the ...2 KB (288 words) - 21:40, 20 March 2023
- continues to suffer in a world of selfishness and ignorance, unable to fulfill their potential and live as ideal human beings, psychotherapists ...2 KB (213 words) - 17:24, 24 February 2024
- Another way of expressing this is that selfishness is evil and selflessness is good. Rev. Sun Myung Moon taught that evil can only be overcome ...2 KB (325 words) - 21:39, 10 October 2021
- in the free market is a check on selfishness that benefits society ... out cases of conflict and of the narrow selfishness of human motives. This ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- == Selfishness of the "property" perspective == Pick up almost any book on inventions, and you'll find it beginning with (or consisting ...21 KB (3,563 words) - 16:36, 25 January 2021
- is the accomplished type of vulgar and brutal selfishness, unredeemed by a single human feature–even his fondly doting mother (Mrs. Protakov, from ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- that humanity might rise above greed, selfishness, ignorance and hatred and build a world in which all people have due regard for the welfare ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- Becker also noted that the root of evil lies in the selfishness of ... of evil and the cause of human suffering is selfishness: ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- interest, he distinguished this from selfishness, and rather saw human ... adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness (1850). ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- is only when human nature changes from selfishness to caring for others and ... is only when human nature changes from selfishness to caring for others and ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- arose from basic human instincts and natural selfishness prompting the individual to act for his own benefit, and social freedom which was achieved ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- that humanity is a practical species full of selfishness and other flaws. Situational ethics is subjective, because decisions are made by the individual ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- :Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others ... *Rand, Ayn. 1964. The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: Signet. ISBN ...27 KB (4,209 words) - 08:39, 23 July 2023
- and was generous to a fault. Malice, envy or selfishness were not traits of his, and he never lost his temper (Outcault 1995). Average readers ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- purify her motives, help her to overcome all selfishness, and unite her more closely with her beloved divine Spouse. She wrote to her spiritual ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- to gradually let go of attachments such as selfishness, jealousy, pursuit, lust, zealotry and greed. Li Hongzhi teaches that though the purpose ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- a creed can the pacifists of today be accused of selfishness when they urge upon the United States no isolation, nor indifference to moral issues and ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- under apparent sympathy, have their roots in selfishness. Hutcheson not only maintains that benevolence is the sole and direct source of many actions ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- Hobbes went to the one extreme of postulating selfishness as the sole motive of human action, Cumberland was equally extravagant as regards to benevolence ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Rauschenbusch urged Christians to replace selfishness with love as the basis of human society. The mission of the church, he taught, is not merely ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
