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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... suppose , if being inferior they enjoy equality of status . That is the reason why seeking an advantage over the many is by convention said to be wrong and shameful , and they call it injustice . But in my view nature herself makes it ...
... suppose that , when the very nature and constitution of that whereby we live is disordered and corrupted , life is going to be worth living , if a man can only do as he pleases , and pleases to do anything save that which will rid him ...
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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 |