Sentences with phrase «word egotism»
If the word egotism includes positive self - regard and creative self - determination, and if — being female, or poor, or a person of color — we have been denied opportunities for such self - regard and self - determination, we may act egotistically for good reasons.
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Senator Moynihan rightly concedes that one's ethnicity or nationality can be a legitimate source of pride, but warns, using the words of the Christian ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, that it can also be a form of collective egotism, potentially very destructive.8
A world culminating in the Impersonal can bring us neither the warmth of attraction nor the hope of irreversibility (immortality) without which individual egotism will always have the last word.