Sentences with phrase «only acts selfishly»
> ``... the doctrine that man only acts selfishly... has had > a wide acceptance as being the only reasonable theory.»
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Take, for example, the doctrine that man only acts selfishly — that is, from the consideration that acting in one way will afford him more pleasure than acting in another.
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This notion, which Richard Dawkins of the University of Oxford so memorably called «the selfish gene», seems, paradoxically and wonderfully, to explain not only why animals sometimes act selfishly, but also why they so often seem to cooperate.
The movie suggests that relationships work only when you help the other person to act selfishly.
It only takes one of the four, acting unreasonably or selfishly or maliciously or misguidedly, to turn the litigation into a long, expensive nightmare.