Although
egoism is a weaker cause in motivation, it is, however, the most important cause in organizational commitment (Martin and Cullen, 2006).
"
Egoism" is also used in ethical considerations of how human beings do or ought to live.
That scale consists of 12 items, and considers
egoism and utilitarianism, which are not included in the 8-item scale.
vanity and
egoism, her soul expands through a journey of suffering.
While rational
egoism appeals to many ordinary folk, in sophisticated philosophical circles it has fallen out of favor as a general and complete account of the nature of reasons for action.
Hence
egoism claims that an action might be ethical if it promotes an individual's interests (Cohen, et.
Among the entries are analog and binary utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, Christianity, cooperative utilitarianism,
egoism, evolutionary theory, Michel Foucault, the harm principle, infinite utility, intergenerational justice, John Locke, motive utilitarianism, objective list theory, perfectionism, poor laws, rational choice theory, Adam Smith, Harriet Taylor, and value theory.
In the first paper of this issue Robert Nolt (2013) provides a careful analysis of analogies between the self-centered ness of personal
egoism and the human-centeredness of anthropocentrism ('the
egoism of the human species') and of parallel arguments for and against each.
Bernstein clearly explicates Rand's moral
egoism: all people have the right to live for themselves, owing nothing to others except to respect their freedom by abjuring the "initiation of force" (17).
The national event buries individual
egoism, and in turn gives birth to collective
egoism reminding every Libyan of higher unity to which he/she belongs and the necessity of unifying his/her life with that of others.