Sentences with phrase «selfish individualism»

The fact that disregarding one's own short - term needs results in longer - term happiness turns the neo-classical economics notion of selfish individualism upside down.

So the first temptation is about selfish individualism: what I want and getting my needs met.

On the social plane this concept suggests that organized human unification, while doing away with selfish individualism, will eventually set free higher forms of personal expression.

«On a finite planet, at human carrying capacity, a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.»

We reject the cult of selfish individualism.

So the three temptations were about selfish individualism, power, control, riches, fame, recognition, and glory.

For human rights to be respected there should be a primacy of the dignity of the human person, particularly of others, over material realities such as profits and selfish individualism.

Whereas Jesus has turned down selfish individualism, power, control, riches, fame, recognition, and glory as a means of accomplishing His mission, the church fully embraced such things as a means to spread the Gospel, fulfill the Great Commission, and expand the Kingdom of God on earth.

Postmodernity (which implies a deconstruction of modernity): it appeals to Africans who have suffered from Western interests, rationalism, intellectual abstraction, selfish individualism and colonialism and wish for authentic «solidarity», a postmodern value.

But this is not to sanction the selfish individualism that too often prevails in the modern family.

And the declaration that «we reject the cult of selfish individualism» looks like a clear dismissal of Margaret Thatcher's political ideology.