Self-Interest: An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives from Antiquity to the PresentKelly Rogers Routledge, 2014 M02 4 - 296 pages Self-Interest discusses the reconciliation of inevitable self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology brings together the efforts of twenty three renown philosophers to address the matter of how to bring about such a reconciliation. The drive for self-preservation, as observed by Aquinas, is the first law of nature. With this self-love, however, comes the threat of "the excessive love of self". Self-Interest brings into discussion the reconciliation of necessary self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. |
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... follow from this that true self - love could never be excessive , since , for Plato , a person can never be too rational . In the Laws , however , Plato puts the matter differently , indicating that he does think an excess of self ...
... follows : once we take the universal and impartial standpoint , we become able to transcend our narrow concerns ... follow embrace a different vision . Though they find a certain measure of self - love natural and necessary , they ...
... follow , is this . Luxury and intemperance and license , when they have sufficient backing , are virtue and happiness , and all the rest is tinsel , the unnatural catchwords of mankind , mere nonsense and of no account . THRASYMACHUS ...
... for ourselves . Every man , then , must shun extreme self - love and follow ever in the steps of his better , undeterred by any shame for his case . After studying in Athens under Plato for nearly twenty years 22 CLASSICAL ERA.
... follows that this will be the complete happiness of man , if it be allowed a complete term of life ( for none of the attributes of happiness is incomplete ) . But such a life would be too high for man ; for it is not in so far as he is ...
Contents
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Epicureanism | 33 |
Stoicism | 39 |
MEDIEVAL | 47 |
Augustine of Hippo 354430 | 59 |
David Hume 17111776 | 139 |
Adam Smith 17231790 | 149 |
Immanuel Kant 17241804 | 159 |
Introduction | 169 |
John Stuart Mill 18061873 | 187 |
William James 18421910 | 205 |
TWENTIETH CENTURY | 225 |
Ayn Rand 19051982 | 241 |
EARLY MODERN | 75 |
Bernard Mandeville c 16701733 | 105 |
Joseph Butler 16921752 | 121 |
Francis Hutcheson 16941746 | 129 |
Select Bibliography | 265 |
Acknowledgments and Sourcing | 285 |