0 the act of considering the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and deciding to do what is best for you:
1 consideration of advantages for yourself in making a decision, usually without worrying about its effect on others:
2 a situation in which you consider the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and decide to do what is best for you:
But that, if possible, is possible only because self-interest is thought to be a ground of reasons independently of morality.
But a third pattern might be to attempt to find somewhat more complex rules about whether altruism is in your long-run self-interest.
One acts from self-interest when one aims at maximizing one's welfare, where welfare is understood as depending exclusively on the goods enjoyed by oneself.
An alternative and safer proposition might be the co-existence of sociality and self-interest, and the importance of this in all social and economic planning.
Far from being mired in self-interest, merchants, these writers affirmed, dedicated themselves to the public good.
Acts that appear altruistic may turn out to serve self-interest indirectly when account is taken of side-effects (rewards and punishments), or delayed effects (reputation).
In what sense and to what extent do currently proposed mechanisms and agent behaviors consider self-interest?
The new government policies were now challenging dentists' small business self-interest as well as the professional ideology that defined their notions of patient interest.
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