Sentences with phrase «individual 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.
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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.
Egoism, whether personal or racial, has good reason to be thrilled at the idea of an individual element ascending, through its fidelity to life, to the uttermost development of all that is unique and incommunicable within itself.
Where a given individual displays foolish altruism or egoism, it is because self - love and love for others are not given a proper balance; but it can not be the case that one or the other of these two fundamental aspects is altogether absent.
On the contrary, Niebuhr argued, the collective egoism of class, race, and nation is more persistent than the self - regard of the individual.
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.
«They had to kill egoism in themselves, stop thinking about their individual success and look at themselves as part of a big family.
In the international system, states (as individuals in societies) are socialized into norms and security communities, where the notion of egoism is strongly challenged.