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is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

asking others to live as one wishes to live.

is being devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. Oscar Wilde

is not merely an incapacity for loving others, but also an incapacity for loving oneself.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm

is popularly understood as 'evil' but it simply means 'concern with one's own interests'.

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind. In popular usage, the word 'selfishness' is a synonym of evil... the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends, who cares for no living being and pursues nothing but the gratification of the mindless whims of any immediate moment. Yet the exact meaning and dictionary definition of the word 'selfishness' is: concern with one's own interests. This concept does not include a moral evaluation... it does not tell us whether concern with one's own interests is good or evil... nor does it tell us what constitutes man's actual interests. It is the task of ethics to answer such questions.

is the idea of privileging values required for human survival rather than those produced by desire or feelings such that men, rather than sacrificing for one another and destroying value, should instead deal with one another as traders, which gives value for value.

The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness which means: the values required for man's survival qua man which means: the values required for human survival not the values produced by the desires, the emotions, the 'aspirations,' the feelings, the whims or the needs of irrational brutes, who have never outgrown the primordial practice of human sacrifices, have never discovered an industrial society and can conceive of no self-interest but that of grabbing the loot of the moment.

is not subjectively felt. Even the most selfish person is convinced he lives for others.

Even the most selfish person is convinced he lives for others.

is an accusation leveled at not for the pursuit one one's own good but for neglecting one's neighbor's.

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

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