Search results for "Selfishness" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- 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 ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- recreation, and the celebration of selfishness and pleasure. Perhaps the most prominent spokesman for Satanism in recent years has been Anton ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- which results from fallen human nature and selfishness, into a normative solution and justification for extermination of enemies and theft of property ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- It is doomed to self destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism… is the only way of human life." ...29 KB (4,549 words) - 21:59, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- as the ultimate irrationality and evil, pure selfishness, a dangerous precedent, madness, and pathology. Conceptions of suicide clearly are framed ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- compound of grossness and simplicity, whose low selfishness leads him to place blind confidence in all the extravagant hopes and promises of his master ...33 KB (5,296 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- pay. 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 ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- being equally considered. Group selfishness is thus a greater threat to democracy than individual selfishness. In many respects, Western democracy ...74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
- of Carranza. Carranza's egoismo (selfishness) would eventually become self-destructive, alienating most of the people he needed to hold ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- for the new nation, despite the bickering and selfishness common in the nearly anarchic and bankrupt government under the Articles of Confederation. ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- that deeper than her grief was the selfishness that caused her to fasten upon it. At that moment she became a follower of the Buddha. ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- |* be liberal and avoid selfishness, |---- |* maintain a high moral character, |---- |* be prepared to sacrifice one's own pleasure for the ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- beings. As such, he failed to foresee the selfishness of those in the working class, who after seizing "the means of production" would develop ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- partisan advantages, intellectual cunning, and selfishness. … 305.01 Universe is the starting point for any study of synergetic phenomena. ...36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- the basic values of family life and lead to selfishness. In 2009, Sacks gave an address claiming that Europeans had chosen "consumerism and ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023