Sentences with phrase «enlightened self interest»

Mark my words, after AIG and TARP folks are sick of «enlightened self interests» making policies that take money out of their pockets, and with Goldman Sachs [earth2tech.com] setting themselves up to make so much money off the «carbon credits» scam that robber barons would blush,

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This was partly enlightened self - interest.

«From its inception, Panera has utilized the principles that some call conscious capitalism, and which we at Panera like to call «enlightened self - interest.»

Out of Bill's desperation the AA principle of enlightened self - interest was taking shape.

Besides, we believed that the United Nations, enlightened self - interest and our elected leaders would somehow get us through.

Either basis could (though not necessarily or invariably) result in the same decisions being made, particularly if the self - interest involved is indeed enlightened, rather than narrowly selfish.

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

Of course, if its self - interest is highly enlightened the consequences need not be bad for others.

This means that at best there is only an enlightened self - interest.

Enlightened self - interest atomizes society into individuals.

I'm with you on the enlightened self - interest but where does the god part come in?

This is not to say that «enlightened self - interest» or a policy of unrestrained economic individualism will make a society either just or as a whole prosperous.

For example, an individual who acts according to enlightened self - interest will not in fact establish the relation with others needed to fulfill those interests.

The principle involved is similar to what we call «enlightened self - interest.»

Instead of a community of people exercising wise judgements about the general welfare or even acting out of enlightened self - interest, we have large groups of people expressing unexamined prejudices which are all too easily manipulated by those who control the mass media.

This judgment should be based on enlightened self - interest: Would a vote to grant personhood benefit the rest of us, or harm us (for example, by preventing us from doing lethal experiments on this human that could add to our medical knowledge)?

The International Boxing Club, pursuing at last a policy of enlightened self - interest, has opened two small clubs in Chicago, where for 99 cents, less than the price of a movie, the fans have been seeing some live, well - matched action and taking their wives and girl friends to ringside.

A politics of fairness and equality is about both (i) making an argument across the whole of society that a fairer and more equal society is in our collective enlightened self - interest, using the arguments of Richard Wilkinson, etc on issues like crime, general well - being, and that there are benefits of fairness for those at the top too.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Speaking of enlightened self - interest, how does forcing the entire working class into poverty and killing their customer base to protect their hoarding help?

Now consider that virtue, the animating force in American life serving as an example of enlightened self - interest, and how rare that is

«It was enlightened self - interest,» says Albert Hoser, head of the Siemens Foundation, a corporate charity created in 1998.

The panel calls on big pharma to «look beyond short - term assessments of profit and loss, and act with enlightened self - interest» in helping to fund the basic research that will allow the scheme to proceed.

Yet there is some hope that the reasoning from enlightened self - interest that leads to its conclusion will finally get the high - level hearing it deserves in Washington.

And though opponents of school choice have a long list of complaints (some more valid than others), they are hardly powerless to address them, provided they recognize that working with (rather than against) the choice movement is in their enlightened self - interest.

Of course, that decision was made in enlightened self - interest, based on a belief that Hachette's clout would serve mutual objectives (nothing wrong with that).

Enlightened self - interest, anyone?

A retailer with a philosophy of enlightened self - interest wants to keep prices low, and is treating authors better than any company in history.

I suppose I should support this idea if only out of enlightened self - interest, since I'm a webstripper.

And it implies that changing business conditions and adaptive responses are often more important drivers of investor behavior and market dynamics than enlightened self - interest — the wisdom of crowds is sometimes overwhelmed by the madness of mobs.

It's not nice to use the fear of negative sanctions, but if enlightened self - interest or human compassion don't work, maybe it's necessary.

Bravo to Mr. Begley for showing the way on sustainable living, which is really enlightened self - interest.

It was enlightened economic self interest.

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Yet what we explore here is not whether enlightened - self interest supports climate change policies, of course it does, but whether self - interest arguments are actually stronger than ethical arguments.

Now ClimateEthics agrees, of course, that if the consensus view of climate change science is correct, enlightened self - interest would support strong climate change policies.

Since I am no philosopher, I'm not going to explore at just which point enlightened self - interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.»

Geoff, I like your phrase «enlightened self - interest of democratically elected scoundrels»!

Conservatives need a solution which doesn't grow government, which trusts in the power of accountable marketplaces to deliver innovation and which empowers individuals in the liberty of enlightened self - interest to make their own decisions.

And while no single industry can reverse climate change, enlightened self - interest is driving ski areas to adopt a wide range of innovative energy measures to prolong their survival — and maybe ours.

But I don't believe enlightened self - interest takes us far enough.

Pro bono needs to be understood for what it is, enlightened self - interest.

This appreciation creates a mutual sense of «enlightened self - interest» in which each partner is motivated by a desire to enhance the well being of the other in the recognition that in doing so they are enhancing their own well being in the process.

Also, since the mediator must remain neutral, he / she can not work privately with clients to get past impasses, and there is no coach to help clients keep enlightened self - interest perspective.