Self-interest: An Anthology of Philosophical PerspectivesKelly Rogers Psychology Press, 1997 - 293 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. This anthology brings together the work of twenty-three important philosophers to address the question of how to bring about such a reconciliation. Contributors include: Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Hobbes, Nicole, Mandeville, Butler, Hutchenson, Hume, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Mill, James, Nietzsche, Dewey, Rand, and Gauthier. |
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Contents
CLASSICAL | 5 |
Plato 427347 B C | 13 |
Aristotle 384322 B C | 23 |
Epicureanism | 33 |
Stoicism | 39 |
MEDIEVAL | 47 |
Augustine of Hippo 354430 | 59 |
EARLY MODERN | 75 |
Francis Hutcheson 16941746 | 129 |
David Hume 17111776 | 139 |
Adam Smith 17231790 | 149 |
Immanuel Kant 17241804 | 159 |
NINETEENTH CENTURY | 169 |
TWENTIETH CENTURY | 225 |
Ayn Rand 19051982 | 247 |
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