Sentences with phrase «egoism as»

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describes egoism as: «The identification of the power of the Seer with that of the instrument of seeing.»

I will first discuss emotionality and how emotions shape, sabotage or hijack certain political processes, and then examine amoral egoism as an alternate lens to analyze state behaviour.

I think she erred in regarding Niebuhr as following «in the footsteps of Nygren condemning self - love and emphasizing sacrifice as the primary historical manifestation of agape».31 The textual evidence is clear that Niebuhr warns against egoism as corrupting mutuality.

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Deriving from the Latin alter, «other» — it refers to an orientation to the good of others rather than principally or exclusively to one's own good, as in egoism.

The sources of corporate estrangement are the same as those that produce the estrangement of the individual; egoism, pride and the desire for power and domination by a group or groups of people.

He is that mightier life which inexorably brings death to our base egoism so as to draw into itself all our capacities for loving.

These models, such as that of Carl Rogers, embody ethical egoism and reduce morality to the satisfaction of one's own personal needs.

Luther's insight that * sin * is not «man turned down toward the earth rather than up toward heaven» as the Catholic scholasticss taught; but was «man curved in upon himself» was an insight that has been confirmed by contemporary psychology in its teaching on narcissistic egoism.

If I am correct that there has been a narrowing of the horizons of concern in the American public, and a franker affirmation of individual egoism and of national self - interest as determinants of action, we need to ask why.

Even in the Catholic, and not only in the Protestant view of the relation between God and man the freedom of the latter as derived only from himself is guilty and imprisoned egoism; hence as far as he is concerned, this freedom refuses to accept God's self - communication and to let God be God.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

What therefore in the case of a man one would regard as a sign of egoism and stupidity, that one is to regard by the help of an exegete as a worthy conception of the Deity.

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

As opposed to all theories which are not able to overcome conceptually the egoism of finitude, Whitehead's cosmology — without calling the concreteness, perspectivity, and transitory character of actual occasions into question — can disclose a broader horizon.

«They had to kill egoism in themselves, stop thinking about their individual success and look at themselves as part of a big family.

The sustainability of any political order depends on governance mechanisms that successfully balance the ever - present tension between these nine human dignity needs and the three attributes of human nature as I define them: emotionality, amorality and egoism.

Governments must craft public policies carefully so as to mediate between the emotionality, amorality and egoism of human nature and our nine dignity needs.

The state can be a rational, self - interested, power - maximizing actor, yet deconstructing the discourse on state rationality and state egoism, defined as the pursuit of national interests, paints a more complex picture of the facets of state conduct.

As I have pointed out in previous works, human beings are characterized by «emotional amoral egoism».

In the international system, states (as individuals in societies) are socialized into norms and security communities, where the notion of egoism is strongly challenged.

Some newer philosophies such as egoism have criticized the concept, with writers such as Nietzsche arguing that there is no moral obligation to help others.

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Proponents of critical pedagogy view «egoism» as incompatible with societal progress and complain that schools have become too wedded to Social Darwinist competition.

The «Ego» driver - customisable mode here isn't derived from the «ego» as in «egoism» but from the Greek «Ego / Εγώ» which means «I» or «me».