Psychological Egoism

Title: Psychological Egoism
Category: /Social Sciences/Psychology
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Psychological Egoism
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…showed last 75 words of 2007 total…choice of living for others (which is altruism) or expecting others to live for us (which is called ``selfishness''). Rand identified a third alternative: let each man live for his own sake, neither ``sacrificing himself to others nor others to himself.'' Rand held that if (and only if) people act morally and selfishly as she defined it, there is a harmony of interests among men that makes peace, benevolence, and, ultimately, general prosperity possible.

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