It is hard to say whether we are more self interested than Americans at the time the Constitution was written.
But now, said Anil Verma, a professor of industrial relations at the University of Toronto, "there is more self-interest," more of an emphasis on growth.
The Lib Dems were outmanoeuvred at every stage in the coalition, and would perhaps have been stiffened by a little more self-interest.
Liberal skeptics might argue that Republicans would shun Obama no matter how many seats they controlled, but the laws of political self-interest suggest otherwise; the more districts and states you represent, the more varied your constituencies and the more self-interest compels you to compromise.
But is it possible that "we're sometimes driven towards people with the same faults as we have?" "When I first became part of a couple," the narrator confides in the labyrinthine story called "Carcassonne," "I began to examine with more self-interest the progress and fate of other couples".
This often occurs in moral dilemmas involving drinking and driving and business situations where participants have been shown to reason at a subpar stage, typically using more self-interest driven reasoning (i.e., stage two) than authority and social order obedience driven reasoning (i.e., stage four).
Whether from a passion for well-built machines or a more self-serving interest in architecture's ability to promote an aura of technological sophistication, the auto companies are underwriting buildings that combine a stunning level of structural refinement with a flair for formal experimentation.
I think most believe that some people are more ideologically than self interest driven.
Since countries with good TB control may be more vulnerable, their self interest dictates greater promotion of case detection and DOTS implementation in countries with poor control to control their risk of MDR-TB.
For the vicar's daughter, the community comes first: we need our politics to be "more than individualism and self interest".
To know that at the heart of it all is the fact that we cannot hope to continue to live and grow and breathe unless we all develop a collective conscience that sees all of us, where each lets go of some of his or her self for a more enlightened kind of self interest which includes the survival of all.
