Sentences with phrase «from self interest»

When lawyers and judges discourage self - representation, we can not assume that this is motivated entirely from self interest.

This means moving away from self interest in favor of connecting to the collective.

Not exact matches

But as a backup, we have commercial law and various regulations to give makers and sellers of products good reason, from a self - interested point of view, to treat consumers well.

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

And if you're interested in investing in cryptocurrencies — or in playing fantasy football for money, for that matter — take a tip from self - made millionaire Tony Robbins: Only use money you can afford to lose.

Just like customers, employees act from self - interest.

It is certainly possible that the unethical favours at the expense of of a third party might just be construed as the cost of gifts in the eyes of the giver and the receiver and hence become indistinguishable from other forms of self - interest.»

Car technology has become a prime area of interest for Silicon Valley companies ranging from Google Inc, which has built a prototype self - driving car, to electric car - maker Tesla Motors Inc..

As we've previously reported, investors» interest this year has shifted away from consumer devices to niche and enterprise hardware, such as aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial robotics.

Redick, a self - professed man of many interests, says he was actually inspired about what he could do with a second career, thanks to some «simple, but profound» advice from Goldman Sachs senior executive David Solomon.

Of course, there may be some degree of self - interest in this seemingly selfless request insofar as the bulk of Gildan's operations are in Central America and the Caribbean, unlike some of its competitors who may source more from Bangladesh.

Your coach has done a disservice to you, and to your team, from his self - interested desire to place the blame onto your shoulders.

Keep in mind that participants self - selected from a pool of over 300,000, and therefore are probably more interested in social media marketing than people who did not respond.

But such a message needs to be accompanied by clear signals that the US will strive to be a reliable and predictable partner, that it understands its interest in strong effective global institutions, and that it recognises that even self - interested nations can benefit from thoughtful diplomacy.

From what I have witnessed, the Foundation with Buterin at its helm, has exercised a great deal of rational thought in its decision making process, and I have not seen any evidence that it has chosen self - interest over the betterment of the Ethereum community as a whole.

• 1/2 of self - employment tax (self - employed individuals are required to pay «payroll» taxes that an employer would otherwise take; these extra taxes can be deducted from AGI, but are included in MAGI) • Student loan interest • Tuition and fees deduction • Qualified tuition expenses • Passive income or loss • Rental losses • IRA contributions and taxable Social Security payments • Exclusion for income from U.S. savings bonds • Exclusion for adoption expenses (under 137)

Summer 2015: Anthony Levandowski meets with then - Uber executive Brian McClendon and expresses interest in starting a self - driving car startup that Uber could buy to acquire Waymo's lidar team, according to testimony from Waymo engineer Pierre - Yves Droz.

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

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

«Budding entrepreneur: self - driven attitude; innate engineering sense with business interest, eg realization: earn from your money, passive income, not direct correlation with your time.»

We intend to sort legitimate, potent tokensales and accredited investors from a sea of fraudulent, self - interest driven organizations and individuals.

These deductions can come from work - related travel, accommodations, debt - interest, charitable donations and moving charges, costs related to job hunting, and home office expenses for those who are self - employed.

Away from the mob, a man of «Honour» is flogged at a whipping post by «Vilany,» assisted by an ape in devilishly flamboyant garb, while the figure of «Honesty,» stripped naked, is bludgeoned by «Self Interest» atop a wheel of fortune as a minister intones a prayer over him.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest.

The expectation of self - interested behavior was turned into a necessity and from there to a virtue.

For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing with any message brought to society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

The Oliners cite the definition given in Webster's Third New International Dictionary: «uncalculated consideration of, regard for, or devotion to other's interests...» These formulations suggest that motives of self - interest must be separated from altruistic acts.

We need to overcome our ideological biases, our financial self - interests, and we need to do a good deal of listening and learning from Africans.

From David Brooks» New York Times column today: Obama is the one insistently calling on audiences to serve a cause greater than self - interest.

This shift, from the strong commitment to organizations and institutions that our parents (or in my case, grandparents) had to self - interest is neither good nor bad.

When I became a seminary administrator, a colleague at another school gave me this advice: «People always act from self - interest.

Curiously, Hume did not use this aspect of his ontology in writing his ethics, with its contention that sympathy is not derivative from self - interest.

From Marxism process theology can learn the importance of critical analysis of the interests that arise within the situation and of the way that the social situation controls thinking which does not become self - critical.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

In an analogous fashion, he moves from the commonsense observation that economic self «interest plays a significant role in foreign policy to the sweeping and unjustified conclusion that it is pretty much all of foreign policy.

Prejudiced people are not necessarily unintelligent; they have simply been prevented by self - interest from using their reason as a guide to just behavior.

I'm certain that mother and son both have redeeming qualities and that there are mitigating circumstances, but the vulnerable must be protected from the predatory behavior of those who pursue their disordered self - interests and desires at their expense.

It's interesting how so much of my preaching is either preaching from my past self, to my present self or to a future self.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

Unless they are actively working to change things from within, which most are not, it is out of laziness and narrow self - interest (nice place for a wedding, pretty communion dresses for the kids) over caring about vital international aid issues and healthcare or gender equality.

Alongside evangelicals» renewed awareness, under Niebuhr's influence, of self - interest and historical limits, mainstream Protestants would benefit from a renewed Niebuhrian confidence in their own core values.

Originally derived from economics, rational choice theory is now used across the social sciences to explain human behavior as a self - interested, choice - making affair.

It means that each soul, redeemed from self - interest by The revelation of Divine Love, is taken and used again for the spread of that redeeming work.»

This worldview requires a completely different set of myths from the worldview of efficiency and self interest: myths that talk about community, connectedness, giving, sharing, helping, and nurturing — rather than self, things, getting, keeping, forcing, using and conquering.

However, the spontaneity we need must be distinguished from acting according to habit or in terms of a narrow self - interest.

There can be no such thing as pure «selfishness since no self originates or exists in isolation from others and even the most subjective interest is still of a social nature.

Just so far as his affection is turned on private interest, he will become regardless of the common good, and when he is detached from the community in heart, his services will be very precarious at best, and those will not be expected at all which imply self - denial.37

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

The change of nomenclature from greed to rational self - interest combined with the highly positive appraisal of its overall effects has confused Christian thinkers from that time on.