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Besides, he was misanthropic, absorbed by his fearful moods, his egoistic preoccupations, his concern about his health he was indifferent to everything which had formerly excited his enthusiasm or hatred.
Above all we must record the fact that the so-called rights of man, as distinguished from the rights of the citizen, are nothing else than the rights of the member of bourgeois society, that is of the egoistic individual, of man separated from man and the community. The most radical constitution, the Constitution of 1793, may be cited: Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen.
This strategy lies at the heart of what Nietzsche called the slave morality in brief, a morality based upon a concealment of egoistic purpose, a code of ethics having for its foremost character a bold denial of its actual aim. III. Marriage Fundamental Motives
THE MORALIST'S INTEREST IN EGOISM It has been worth while to treat at length of egoism because the doctrine takes on more or less subtle forms, and its fundamental principle, self-interest, has a significance for various ethical schools which are not, or are not considered, egoistic.
"That's very unfair," Parry protested, "as an account of Hedonism." "I don't see that it is at all," cried Leslie. "I think," I said, "that it represents Bentham's position well enough, though probably not Bartlett's." "Oh well," said Parry, "Bentham was only an egoistic Hedonist." "A what?" said Bartlett. "An egoistic Hedonist." "And what may that be?"
But this pleased the recipient less than the praise of his peers in the city room. After that first talk, Burt came back to Banneker's desk from time to time, and once took him to dinner at "Katie's," the little German restaurant around the corner. Burt was given over to a restless and inoffensively egoistic pessimism. "Look at me. I'm twenty-eight and making a good income.
The mutual adoration of two individuals, husband and wife, often degenerates into a species of egoistic enmity toward the remainder of the world. And this, in turn, in many cases reacts unfavorably upon the love the two feel for each other. Human solidarity, especially in this day, is already too great not to revenge itself upon the egotistical character of so exclusive a love.
The egoistic ideal may be urged upon us on the ground that it addresses itself to man as natural and reasonable. And various moralists, who do not make self-interest the one fundamental principle which should rule human conduct, are evidently loath to make of it a principle subordinate to some other.
Our Ptolemaic theory of society is necessitated by our tenacity to the personal standpoint. This fixed idea of ours causes all else seemingly to rotate about it. Such an egoistic conception is quite foreign to our longitudinal antipodes. However much appearances may agree, the fundamental principles upon which family consideration is based are widely different in the two hemispheres.
Living so vividly within the circle of its own experience, by its very constitution so necessarily egoistic, the latter, more particularly in its early years, is always a Narcissus, caring for nought or none except in so much as they reflect back its own beauty or its own dreams.
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