Egoistic

Egoistic guidance is a daoguide similarly committed to right-wrong, normative guiding distinctions rooted in a distinction between 'self' and 'other.'

Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

Egoistic property is rather constituted by the ˜unlimited dominion™ (223) of individuals over the world, by which Stirner appears to mean that there are no moral constraints on how an individual might relate to things and other persons.

Max Stirner Leopold, David 2006

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The Egoistic Friend 2006

Egoistic love allows the individual to deny himself something in order to enhance the pleasure of another, but only because his own pleasure is enhanced as a result.

Max Stirner Leopold, David 2006

Egoistic reasons are paradigmatic agent-relative reasons, and it should be trivial that they come out as such rather than a matter of great controversy.

Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative Ridge, Michael 2005

-- The egoist may set his affections upon pleasure, and become a representative of Egoistic Hedonism, the variety of egoism normally treated as typical and made the subject of criticism in ethical treatises.

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

Egoistic impulses are recognized, in that reward and punishment are allotted, but the end urged upon the attention of the individual is the common good, not his own particular good.

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

Egoistic, commonplace, insincere in her ordinary life, -- love made her simple, true, almost good: she understood in love the joy that is to be found in self-forgetfulness.

Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

Egoistic impatience had placed false weights and measures in my hands.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Egoistic pleasures of all kinds are doubled by another's sympathetic participation; and the pleasures of another are added to the egoistic pleasures.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890