self-interest是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.