Unlike personal identity, egoistic concern can be a matter of degree and is thus affected by the degree of psychological unity of the individual.
Nor is he afraid of the egoistic display.
The world they depict is neither hellish nor depraved, but it is decidedly egoistic and provincial.
On the first view, commitment epitomizes everything that transcends those egoistic preferences, inclinations, and desires on which homines oeconomici are usually taken to act.
This is because they are built on an egoistic perspective of carrot and stick.
The "natural" unit of the family thus breaks up into a multitude of competing groups of proprietors, who essentially aim at their particular egoistic advantage.
This physical and functional continuity of consciousness is what explains our egoistic concern about our future.
Then egoistic reasons would be desire-based, unlike the reasons for categorical 'oughts' as invoked by utilitarians and intuitionists.
