Sentence examples for egoistic grounds from inspiring English sources

Parental care might be explained on egoistic grounds: a belief about the child's distress causes the parent pain that the parent believes she can alleviate by helping, or the parent believes that she will be caused pain if she does not help.

"Egoistic and selfish deals are not the basis for stability," he said.

To renounce is weak, reactive, egoistic.

Mr. Weicker's critics call it egoistic bluster.

They were just as egoistic as they could be".

"My motive for having a string quartet was very egoistic.

Human nature just is egoistic, selfish and so on.

'No, it's extremely egoistic, very short term.

I see many leaders who are somewhat egoistic.

First, desire in itself does not make a motive egoistic.

Epicurus's philosophy contained an important ethical part, which was a sort of enlightened egoistic hedonism.