We think it would be unfortunate if stipulatively defining egoism or altruism in behavioristic terms were to hamstring scientific research into its mentalistic aspects.
Loving woman is thus an act of egoism and cruelty which, in idealising her, fails to recognise her true nature.
The reestablishment of internal mechanisms enlightens answers to critical questions surrounding the egoism-altruism debate.
The same point, however, cannot be made about the cognitions that egoism produces.
Of course, egoism, as a matter of the history of the discipline, is an ethical theory and, indeed, an important one.
To the extent that it does appear to exist, should it be regarded as a covert form of egoism?
He identifies three different principles regarding utility maximization: descriptive (psychological egoism), normative (instrumental rationality), and definitional.
It encouraged ' egoism ', the ' dissolvant of each society ', and prevented public spiritedness.
