Sentence examples for rational egoist from inspiring English sources

Rand was pondering the distinction between "the conventional type of egoist" -- the parasite who ruthlessly preys on others -- and her own radically different vision of a "rational egoist": the independent, self-sufficient creator, who rejects self-sacrifice but also stands above the need to sacrifice others to himself.

If one is a rational egoist, one will aim to promote one's own good.

The rational egoist must argue that hers is a case where preferences are decisive.

As a rational egoist, I claim that I ought to maximize the welfare of one person (myself).

One worry is that what best increases reproductive fitness is acting as a kin altruist rather than as a rational egoist (Crisp 2012, Other Internet Resources).

To them, the stance of a rational egoist who prefers that everyone else, but not he, practice the dao is incoherent.

The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists.

The most important question is rather how norms get to be followed, and what prompts rational egoists to abide by them.

The difference is that rational egoists aim at knowledge, and for putative knowledge, in cases of disagreement between epistemic peers, suspension of belief is required.

Ethical egoists do best by defending rational egoism instead.

After all, few if any ethical egoists think of egoism as giving the correct content of morality, while also thinking that the rational thing to do is determined by some non-egoist consideration.