How To Use Egoism In A Sentence

  • Even matched against the blackguardly egoism of what you call genius? — Maurice Guest
  • Hence a type of reflective egoism has taken the place of animal gratification, and the idea of ulterior benefit has succeeded to that of immediate pleasure. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
  • Controversially, he holds that the universalizability principle is merely formal and lacks content, being consistent with both egoism and utilitarianism, and that temporal neutrality translates into a form of prudence. Henry Sidgwick
  • But Gaspare had effectually changed her mood, had driven away what she chose to call her egoism, had concentrated all her thoughts on Vere. A Spirit in Prison
  • Psychological egoism claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare.
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  • James A. Johnston, the prison's first warden, believed that egoism was the chief failing of recidivists.
  • The core issue is finding a system for fixing our escalating egoism, which is becoming more evident with each passing generation.
  • When people are made to hear of the social violence that exists in their own communities they can escape the gravitational pull of blinkered egoism and begin to work together.
  • It's the oldest religion there ever was - sheer magnetic egoism. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • The ability for a couple to marry is based on each one controlling innate egoism and narcissism.
  • When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature. Maurice Guest
  • Ignorance, the essence of which consists in believing in the distinction between subject and object, is also called defilement and the highest truth passes through various stages of defilement ending with that where under the influence of egoism and passion the external world of particulars is believed to be everything. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
  • Ben countered that in its teaching that the individual must overcome egoism and the yearnings of self, Kabbalah shows how to put a clamp on one's thoughts.
  • Step by step, as I was awakened to examine my egoism and tried to come out of the selfish cave, so I could gradually appreciate the beauty of interdependence and interrelationship for the sake of proclaiming higher values.
  • From the perspective of Hobbes's critics the doctrines that lay at the heart of his atheism were materialism, necessitarianism, moral relativism and egoism, and scepticism concerning natural and revealed religion. Hume on Religion
  • Parents and teachers should also closely cooperate with each other to arm children with the " spirit of citizenship " so as to help them grow learning to help others and share rather than being encapsulated in strict egoism.
  • If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.
  • Deliberately to distance oneself from others behind miles of park wall is an act of supreme egoism.
  • In the language of flowers, the narcissus stands for vanity and egoism.
  • No doubt there is a spiritual egoism, built on barren ideas concerning oneself with no real practice behind them, that one can easily fall into.
  • Ethical egoism is not assumed by Rawls, even if self-interest and reciprocity play important conceptual roles in getting Rawls’s liberal project off the ground. Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls…
  • Joel turned down all offer of help he badly needed because of his excessive egoism.
  • Any society which explains itself in terms of mutual egoism is heading for certain destruction. Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls…
  • Both the ontological egoism by Descartes and the functional egoism by Kant reveal this tendency.
  • None of the great ones of the earth is so intimately known to us as the magnificent histrion, whose tinselled grandeur and pompous egoism have been laid bare by the Duke of St. Simon, prince of memoirists. The Story of Paris
  • In the rest of practical life he walked by hereditary habit; half from that personal pride and unreflecting egoism which I have already called commonness, and half from that naivete which belonged to preoccupation with favorite ideas. Middlemarch
  • The brash egoism of 20 years ago has been replaced with a more gracious dignity.
  • Jacobi's basic thesis is that Fichte's reworking of Kantian transcendental idealism leads to an impoverished egoism which has no knowledge of objects or subjects in themselves.
  • In this way, people will naturally dismiss egoism, desires for material wealth, extravagance and wastage.
  • Industrial society brought new problems: soulless individualism, economic egoism, utilitarianism, materialism and the cash nexus.
  • At least there's something there beyond your self and your own wits to cling to, a certain selflessness amid the terrible egoism of a writer. Realism in Fiction
  • And not only does suffering make Christians closer to God by breaking down the sufferer's stubborn egoism, it also serves to act as a kind of billboard advertising God's love for all.
  • And yet, though indeed there be little relation between our real self and the other — because of their homonymy and their common body, the abnegation which makes us sacrifice easier duties, pleasures even, seems to others egoism. Time Regained
  • Far from inspiring individualism, or egoism, the act should inspire awe, humility.
  • His arrogance, egoism and desperate need for womanising, are as well known as his genius.
  • The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.
  • To explain what he meant by 'moral Communism' Matsuoko cited his own family, but said the Japanese concept of moral Communism had been overwhelmed by liberalism, individualism and egoism from the West. When Ayn Rand Villains Ruled the Earth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • For others, he symbolises all that is rotten within Sri Lankan cricket politics: a man driven by egoism and self-interest.
  • People tend to cheat more if their egoism is very high or very low. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant and very interesting talk about moral code and cheating
  • He was looked down upon because of his egoism.
  • We are not speaking here of mere egoism, which is a species of acknowledgment of weakness that very young children are incapable of making to themselves, but which those who are older will try to avoid. Poise: How to Attain It
  • The Vedanta is supermundane, not because it looks down in any way on the dreary earth with a transcendental egoism, but because it transforms and then embraces its fallen brother, the mundane life, in its bosom of an all-inclusive knowledge and love.
  • Some beliefs are the hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic, others are the products of egoism, biases, prejudices or preferences. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • We have families where the parents behave like the kids, families where the kids behave like the parents, families where love rules and families where egoism is king.
  • Reason, applied consistently, doesn't lead us down a straight path to egoism, much less to capitalism.
  • It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
  • The egoism and altruism attribute of individual behavior all is to meet own needs.
  • Some beliefs are the hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic, others are the products of egoism, biases, prejudices or preferences. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Hobbes accepted that human beings are capable of generosity, kindness, and co-operation but the pride and egoism which is inherent in human nature means that mankind also is prone to conflict, violence, and great evil.
  • In the public sphere, it became a criticism, denoting an excessive egoism and pettiness that precluded a consideration of the greater good.
  • Stage fright masks itself as a domineering style, or as coyness, egoism, or pride.
  • The egoism of retired presidents to keep the parties that they founded or co-founded immortal will play a significant role.
  • It is a spiritual ingredient, composed, when one comes to analyse it, of two chemical elements; of what might be called aesthetic egoism and of what we know as philosophic scepticism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
  • That is why, little children, be open to God's love and leave egoism and sin.
  • He thought in Darwinian terms of the struggle of nations for survival and preached ' national egoism '.
  • Of course, being well-off does not necessarily breed egoism.
  • The triumph of Nietzschean philosophical egoism is why people more and more start sentences saying "I feel that ...." instead of "I think that ... July 1st, 2009
  • I discovered that if I wanted to be able to see and continue to enjoy this fairyland, it would have to be real, which meant true - and truth and reality are not interested in egoism.
  • I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale - Banquet Speech
  • They seem to love the land and the people with a sort of fierce egoism.
  • It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
  • It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
  • We meet a serving and a patient endurance which, without any self-important airs, is reflected within these people, which lives with them even if otherwise in their ostentatious deeds and ways they seem filled with egoism and brutality. Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 - Press Release
  • All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
  • One issue concerns how much ethical egoism differs in content from standard moral theories.
  • They have torn the soul of Christ into silly strips, labelled egoism and altruism, and they are equally puzzled by His insane magnificence and His insane meekness. Orthodoxy
  • Only under the dominance of Christianity, which makes all national, natural, moral, and theoretical conditions extrinsic to man, could civil society separate itself completely from the life of the state, sever all the species-ties of man, put egoism and selfish need in the place of these species-ties, and dissolve the human world into a world of atomistic individuals who are inimically opposed to one another. The common denominator
  • It is also time to take stock of inner weaknesses such as egoism.
  • Simple stubbornness and egoism can't explain everything - Ralph is too smart and too worldwise for that, even if his followers aren't.
  • Vain to call in universal-suffrage parliaments at that stage: the universal-suffrage parliaments cannot give you any breath of life, cannot find any _wisdom_ for you; by long impiety, you have let the supply of noble human wisdom die out; and the wisdom that now courts your universal suffrages is beggarly human _attorneyism_ or sham-wisdom, which is _not_ an insight into the Laws of God's Universe, but into the laws of hungry Egoism and the Devil's Chicane, and can in the end profit no community or man. Latter-Day Pamphlets
  • The man shows a shocking amount of egoism - not that it's shocking that he's egotistical, it's just surprising that he lets it show so blatantly.

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