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enlightened self interest

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meanings of enlightened, selfand interest


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enlightened
adjective
uk /ɪnˈlaɪ.tənd/ us /ɪnˈlaɪ.t̬ənd/
showing understanding, acting in a positive way, and not following old-fashioned or ...
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self
noun
uk /self/ us /self/
the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from ...
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interest
noun
uk /ˈɪn.trest/ us /ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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Examples of enlightened self interest


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Chapter 4 turns to a justification for giving based on enlightenedself-interest.
When regulated entities go beyond what the regulations strictly require, it is generally safe to assume that they are acting out of enlightenedself-interest.
Some practices were always overlooked, quite conveniently, by party elites, but others could not be by politicians following a path of enlightenedself-interest in the electoral market.
Their talk of communities of generation, or meaning, experience or even of regard points to something that stands above and before any calculation of enlightenedself-interest.
He takes both phenomena to stem from enlightenedself-interest.
It ruled no longer through the principle of sufficient reason or even through that of enlightened self-interest; it now ruled through the iron necessity of matter.
One would be given only the information which that individual felt was useful to their own enlightenedself-interest and nothing more.
That is the first sort of 'community of enlightenment': a community of enlightenedself-interest (and, mutatis mutandis, of 'enlightened advocacy' for those of their interests that extend beyond themselves).
This is expanded rather than enlightenedself-interest, since 'enlightened' only seems to connote something like 'longterm'.
One may convert a sordid self-interest into an enlightenedself-interest, but that is the most that we can expect from reform.
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They were commended to the taxpayer, as acts not of compassion but of enlightenedself-interest and moral right.
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I agree that we should not be embarrassed on the matter of enlightenedself-interest.
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By adopting that position, they might show enlightenedself-interest.
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I think she will decide, very naturally, according to enlightenedself-interest.
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Secondly, there is the argument of the enlightenedself-interest of a trading nation.
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So, first, it is morally right and, second, it can be described as enlightenedself-interest.
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Enlightenedself-interest demands restraint in the use of these reserves.
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It seems enlightenedself-interest as far as we are concerned to do the latter.
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I suspect that a great deal of enlightenedself-interest drove that view.
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Nations can and will continue to pursue their interests, but enlightenedself-interest demands a level of regional co-operation which was never imagined by our forebears.
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