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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Egoism"”.
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Egoism: Arguments for and against it from western philosophy
Egoism is the doctrine that one ought to act only for self-interested reasons. I shall be concerned with the presupposition of egoism: acting only for self-interested reasons is in one's long-term interest. I shall be concerned with this presupposition's truth with respect only to cases in which …
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The Blood Drive of WKU Greek Week: Issues of Altruism, Egoism, Integration and Separation
… methods of negotiating issues of altruism and egoism in terms of the Blood Drive as well as way that the Blood Drive fits into the WKU Greek yearly cycle. I focus on issues of the process of identity in social Greek-letter organizations and how the process of this identity is renegotiated …
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Self-report mental imagery and social desirable responding
… correlations with self-report imagery scales and egoism were always higher than those with moralism; 3) the magnitude of correlations between imagery scales and egoism was generally in the r= .20 to .35 range and so sometimes exceeded a r=.25 criterion for acceptability set by McKelvie (1994); 4) …
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Virtue and self-interest
… such positions claiming that the doctrine of egoism is unworkable. It is commonly claimed that any theory which recommends 'an agent do x if x is in the agent's best interest' is inconsistent, incoherent, or contradictory and fails to meet the basic requirements of a moral theory (notably the …
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Dostoyevsky And Wright On Becoming The Underground Man
… the contradictions of Determinism and Rational Egoism in 19th-century Russia, exposing the flaws of these ideologies through satire. In contrast, Wright recontextualizes this character to address racial injustice in mid-20th-century America, using Fred Daniels' descent into a literal underground …
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Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
… context and in contrast to ethics based on egoism. I look at criticisms of Schopenhauer’s philosophy which have emerged quite recently, and some of which (if valid) would undermine Schopenhauer’s compassion-based moral theory. I have explained these criticisms and offered a defence of …
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Behavioural antecedents of altruism: a comparative analysis
… of the concept altruism from reciprocity and egoism was developed. The meaning of “others” was considered with respect to genetic coefficients of relationship. Modifications of a model for altruism were made which incorporated a factor covering the potential genetic contribution to future …
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Eudaimonia: Utilizing Aristotle's Good Life to Inform Organizational Communication to Reimagine Human Resources Management
… begins by laying bare the current paradigm of egoism/altruism as the inappropriately accepted method to interpret employer/employee relationships. Google is used as an example of a successful contemporary organization widely criticized for their profitability and exploitation of workers. A …
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Nature Images and Fractal Scale-Invariance upon Prosociality
… non-natural image condition upon both hypo-egoism (awareness placed not upon the self but to concrete aspects of immediate experience) and prosocial orientation (a reported willingness to assist others). The latter has been found in prior work. In Study 1, an Implicit Association Test was …
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The Potential of Metaethics for Moral Education
… and objectivity in moral thinking. Objections to egoism as a rational alternative are found to fail, but this does not allow the presentation of egoism in education as a possible morality. A metaethical principle of universalizability is elucidated which is binding upon our moral judgments in the …
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Ethical climates in lodging operations: An exploratory study of management perceptions
… in two separate dimensions: ethical criteria (egoism, benevolence and principle) and loci of analysis (individual, local, and cosmopolitan). Each category comprises a separate ethical climate. Results from the ECQ were compared to various demographic variables such as gender, age, years of …
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PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
… and the two subcategories of Teleology, namely Egoism and Utilitarianism. Chronological Age, the three personality traits of Allocentrism, Machiavellianism and Long-Term Orientation, and the moderating variable of Biological Sex were analyzed with multinomial logistic regression to predict a …
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“Bad things happen [be]cause good people do nothing.” A study on how residents of Athlone and it's suburbs view their roles as bystanders
… for intervention, for example altruism/egoism. This study looks at how bystanders understand intervention and ultimately how they might perceive their roles as bystanders in one community in Cape Town – the broader Athlone area in the Cape Flats. Using a survey (n=60), carried out with …
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Kierkegaardian intersubjectivity and the question of ethics and responsibility
… problem for ethics: the problem of aesthetic egoism. Further, both Kierkegaard and Levinas follow similar paths in responding to the problem, from Kierkegaard's reduplication in Works of Love, to Levinas' notion of substitution in Otherwise than Being. In this comparison, it becomes evident …
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
… when discussing his moral theory, including egoism, broad-mindedness, the relationship between culture and practical judgment, and the importance of community in our moral lives. I attend to these elements with the dual aim of clarifying what Kant's position is and exploring which entailments …
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Ethical Climate, Organizational Commitment, and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Faculty Members
… to type of perceived ethical climate (i.e. egoism, benevolence, and principled). Results of this study also indicate that gender differences play a significant role in the self-reported level of organizational commitment. Females reported higher levels of organizational commitment than their …
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Strategic decision-making of Chinese managers on corporate social responsibility issues: A policy-capturing study
… the managers are at the higher level of egoism (lower level of altruism), therefore this kind of managers are less likely to participate in CSR activities. Compared to managers who work for manufacturing and mining industries, managers from the financial services industry are more likely …
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Reason, Utility, and Right Action in Hume's Moral Philosophy
… and prevent his system from collapsing into egoism.
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Dati Sintetici per Comprendere le Interazioni Egocentriche Mano-Oggetto: Un'Esplorazione Approfondita
… e reso pubblici dataset di benchmark (ENIGMA-51, EgoISM-HOI e HOI-Synth) per supportare la nostra analisi. Riteniamo che questi dataset saranno preziosi per la comunità di ricerca, agevolando future indagini in questo settore.
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