0 interested in your own advantage in everything that you do:
A lot of people feel that politicians are just self-seeking opportunists.
Real human beings are thinking agents and, as such, do not make decisions in the mechanical way that simple self-seeking (merely intentional) systems would.
A generation of senior civil servants saw the state as socially beneficial, capitalism as self-seeking.
This newer view of immune function is fundamentally formulated on self-seeking, self-organizing activity, whose structure is decentered from any bounded self.
They engaged in interest-based self-seeking alongside principled debate.
That objective, the author argues, distinguished the movement from all previous governments, which had been made up of the self-seeking, petit bourgeois heirs of colonial rule.
The picture he draws serves the ironic tone of the interpretation marvelously: selfabsorbed academics at their ivory-tower games, fending off or capitalizing upon the silly impositions of equally self-seeking ministries.
It is orchestrated, it is individual and it is cynically self-seeking.
I respectfully say that they have shown an absence of self-seeking, which is, after all, no very common quality.