Translation for '
egoism' from English to Slovak
NOUN | egoism | - | |
SYNO | egocentrism | egoism | self-centeredness | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Part two is centered on the possibility of freedom from current ideological ways of thinking through a robust philosophical egoism.
- The position that people "tend" to act in their own self-interest is called default egoism, In contrast to this and philosophical egoism, biological egoism (also called evolutionary egoism) describes motivations rooted solely in reproductive self-interest (i.e.
- Egotism differs from both altruism – or behaviour motivated by the concern for others rather than for oneself – and from egoism, the constant pursuit of one's self-interest.
- In their 2012, 2014 and 2016 collaborations she and Singer set out to explain and defend act utilitarianism and suggest a resolution to what the late 19th century British philosopher Henry Sidgwick called “the profoundest problem of ethics", the apparent rationality of both ethical egoism and utilitarianism.
- It is, however, related to several other normative forms of egoism, such as ethical egoism and rational egoism.
- On this matter he called for a "gesunden Volksegoismus" (a healthy Volk-egoism), which quickly became a buzzword for his opponent Robert Blum and was also developed into the "national egoism" advocated by the Polish nationalist Roman Dmowski.
- Egoist anarchism or anarcho-egoism, often shortened as simply egoism, is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a 19th-century philosopher whose "name appears with familiar regularity in historically orientated surveys of anarchist thought as one of the earliest and best known exponents of individualist anarchism".
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