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	Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics
		Egoistic and Universalistic principles may be combined in Ethical Hedonism, in that individuals may rightly or wrongly believe that promoting their own private happiness will promote the general happiness of all individuals.
		However, Egoistic and Universalistic Hedonism may come into conflict if the Egoistic principle that the happiness of each individual is more important than the happiness of society cannot be reconciled with the Universalistic principle that an individual should sacrifice some of his or her happiness for the sake of the happiness of other individuals.
		Egoistic Hedonism and Universalistic Hedonism may also disagree with the Intuitionist principle that intuitive knowledge of the rightness or wrongness of some actions may be based on knowledge of the motives but not the consequences of these actions.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/sidgwick.html (1701 words)

	Max Stirner (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The egoistic future is said to consist not of wholly isolated individuals but rather in relationships of ‘uniting’, that is, in impermanent connections between individuals who themselves remain independent and self-determining.
		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.
		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.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/max-stirner (5879 words)

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		This egoistic orientation might appear, at first, to be altruistic motivation arising from empathic concern.
		The challenge was to use the behavior as the basis for inferring whether the motivation underlying it is egoistic or altruistic.
		Many researchers agree that some helpful acts are either egoistic, done to gain rewards, avoid punishment, or relieve inner distress or altruistic, done to increase another's welfare producing happiness for oneself merely as a by-products.
	www.ycp.edu /besc/journal2000/article2.html (2927 words)

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		Innumerable analyses have shown that pleasure and pain are not measurable, and still less for estimating the quantity of different pleasures by considering their various dimensions--intensity, duration, nearness, certainty, purity (freedom from pain), fruitfulness--is commonly regarded as a piece of absurdity.
		This fundamental postulate of egoistic hedonism is, therefore, fallacious.
		For if one kind of conduct yields this pleasure, while another does not, then evidently there must be some essential difference, unaccounted for in the egoistic and hedonistic theories, between right and wrong conduct, in virtue of which they produce contrary results of happiness and pain for the agent.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/05328A.TXT (1056 words)

	ScienceDirect - Journal of Economic Psychology : What is altruism?*1
		There are three major interactional (rationalistic) theories of altruism, viz., "egoistic," "egocentric," and "altercentric." I call them "interactional" because, despite their differences, they model action after the standard economic approach, viz., as the outcome of optimization (see [Khalil, 2003b]).
		The egoistic view in political science is best expressed in the work of [Axelrod, 1984] (see also [Taylor, 1976]), what is known as the "tit-for-tat" strategy.
		The egoistic view is illustrated by firms that donate funds to charity to enhance "goodwill," or agents helping neighbors from a strategic consideration as expressed in repetitive game theory.
	www.towson.edu /~jpomy/behavioralecon/whatisaltjepsyfeb04.html (12437 words)

	SatyaCenter -- Alternative Health, Relationships and Global News
		These Divine Lovers are our original parents, and their original sin is the sin of pride, which triggers their act of disobedient desire in the primal garden, an act of egotistical over-reaching, when they eat the apple of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil in order to become like gods.
		But as we grow up, as we learn to worship our egoistic personalities, and eventually to assume that the ego is the center of the universe and the sum total of our true nature, we exile ourselves from that blissful Garden of Eden which is our birthright.
		Our egoistic illusions that we are separate from the rest of the world, in conflict with our environment and all those living within it, and alienated from the subtle energies of the world of spirit can all be overcome through spiritual practice.
	www.satyacenter.com /services-relationships-backtogarden3?print=1 (2345 words)

	Egoism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Let one assume that person A wants to help the poor; therefore, A is acting egoistically by actually wanting to help; again, if A ran into a burning building to save a kitten, it must be the case that A wanted or desired to save the kitten.
		However, defining all motivations as what an agent desires to do remains problematic: logically, the theory becomes tautologous and therefore unable to provide a useful, descriptive meaning of motivation because one is essentially making an arguably philosophically uninteresting claim that an agent is motivated to do what she is motivated to do.
		As Smith himself admits, if egoistic behavior lends itself to society’s detriment, then it ought to be stopped.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/e/egoism.htm (4051 words)

	Does civilization exist for egoistic goals? \| The Cesspit. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is an egoistic goal with a COMMUNAL PROCESS.
		EQ raids are egoistic goals and communal processes.
		The goal is still completely egoistic but you are forced to interact to reach it.
	www.cesspit.net /drupal/node/434 (776 words)

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		For there might be several irreducibly different kinds of ultimate desire, even if they were all egoistic Moreover, there might be several irreducibly different, though not necessarily unrelated, senses of the word 'egoistic'; and some desires might be egoistic in one sense and some in another even if all were egoistic in some sense.
		If the desire is egoistic, it will also be intro-verted; for the person who has such a desire will also be considering himself and his relations to that other person or thing, and this will be an essential factor conditioning his experience.
		The most rigid form is that all human motives are ultimately egoistic, and that all egoistic motives are ultimately of one kind.
	www.ditext.com /broad/ethm.html (5115 words)

	SatyaCenter -- Alternative Health, Relationships and Global News
		And the fruit of the egoistic personality is the war between the sexes, war between neighbors, religions, countries and the war of humanity upon the natural world.
		Lust, being based upon the egoistic personality, has a narcissistic orientation that values the loved one to the extent that the loved one flatters, upholds, and reflects the lover's ego and gratifies the lover's physical desires.
		These cords are created by the lover’s intent, conscious or unconscious, to obtain the loved one’s energy for his or her own egoistic purposes, and to fill the void within him or her with that energy.
	www.satyacenter.com /library-archive-backtogarden6?print=1 (6920 words)

	Egoistic Lyrics - by BOBBIE SINGER : Lyrics And Songs
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	Kabbalah World Center - Kabbalah Courses - Talks with the Beginners - First Talk: Perceiving the Desires
		However, if it is running on the altruistic program then the notions of good and bad are not evaluated relative to itself; rather they are evaluated relative to what is outside of it, and this is the light or the Creator.
		In order to reprogram the computer from the egoistic to the altruistic program, there exists the Science of Kabbalah, which helps us to receive the external image that exists genuinely, without the egoistic coating.
		These are: a) the purely altruistic desires that were present in the first nine Sefirot, b) the altruistic desires that have become mixed with the egoistic desires, c) the egoistic desires that have become mixed with the altruistic, and d) the purely egoistic desires.
	www.kabbalah.info /engkab/talks_with_the_beginners/talk1.htm (2794 words)

	Psychological egoism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finally, psychological egoism has also been accused of using circular logic: "If a person willingly performs an act, that means he derives personal enjoyment from it; therefore, people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment".
		In particular, seemingly altruistic acts must be performed because people derive enjoyment from them, and are therefore, in reality, egoistic.
		This statement is circular because its conclusion is identical to its hypothesis (it assumes that people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment, and concludes that people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychological_egoism (765 words)

	Cactus Club November-December 1999
		In maintaining that rights are egoistic, I mean that the recognition of rights requires acceptance of the premise that it is morally proper for individuals to pursue their own interest._________
		It is in this sense that this tradition is egoistic, not in the more commonly understood sense that one's actions must always result in some gain.
		Perhaps an altruistic transaction might accidentally result in a benefit to both parties, but you see my point: it seems odd indeed that we as a society should hold selflessness as a virtue and egoism as a vice, when the latter gives us the greater benefit.
	www.logan.com /afi/nov99.html (11194 words)

	Tara Smith on Egoistic Justice in Denver on 2/19 - Objectivism Online Forum
		Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested in attending.
		Since injustice is the result not of too much egoism, but of too little, a fuller understanding of the egoistic character of justice can fortify us to exercise the virtue of justice more consistently and to reap thereby its selfish rewards.
		There will be a social hour (with cash bar) beginning at 6:00 pm, followed by buffet dinner at 7:00, and Dr. Smith's talk at 8:00.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=2837 (582 words)

	VARIETIES OF EGOISM AND HEDONISM
		This is not to say that the Experience Machine thought experiment shows that DH or DE could not possibly be true.
		PARADOX OF EGOISM: For human beings, attempting to maximize the satisfaction of one's self-interested goals and desires may not maximize one's happiness.
		(There may be some mixture of egoistic and non-egoistic goals and desires which, if pursued, would produce more happiness for the individual than pursuing only self-interested goals and desires.)
	faculty.washington.edu /wtalbott/phil240/hdego.htm (717 words)

	Egoistic corner archive at Arabesque Rhapsody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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