selflessapproving

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selfishness
egocentric
egocentrically
egocentricity
egoism
egoistically
hoggish
hoggishly
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
self-absorbed
self-absorption
self-centred
self-centredly
self-interest
self-serving
self-servingly
selfish
selfishly
selfishness

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Showing arrogance and conceit

Examples of egoistic

egoistic
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.
The second criterion, (2b), makes egoistic and universalistic hedonism use different methods, since the egoist considers only his own pleasure.
In any case, these forms of liberalism would be too egoistic and individual-centered to most champions of solidarity.
First, the linkage between trade and environment makes sense when the country addressing the environmental issues is egoistic.
But, evidently, the nonpartisan may also use his relatively superior position for purely egoistic interests.
Her questions aim to escape the egoistic instinct of the creative self and to offer the power to speak, rhetorically, to the other.
The first criterion, (2a), makes intuitionism and utilitarianism use different methods and makes egoistic and universalistic hedonism use the same method.
Aristotle's ethical theory is often seen as instructing agents in the prudent pursuit of their own well-being, and therefore labeled egoistic.
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