"My high school coach used to say, 'Self-interest makes cowards of us all,' " Bailey wrote to me in an e-mail.
If it can be shown that one is more fundamental than the others that, say, self-interest is our first and most basic reason for action then our reason for obeying the laws of nature and being moral will be very different from what Grotius argued.
That's why I don't say "self-interest"; I say "enlightened self-interest".
That is to say, self-interest rises to a level of greed that overwhelms the economic invisible hand.
(Synergy is just another way of saying self-interest).
A battle for national interest is inevitable, Mr. Lyon said: "Self-interest always comes to the fore in these debates about money".
Now, she said, self-interest is being deployed to meet India's solar goals. .
Now, she said, self-interest is being deployed to meet India's solar goals.
That said, the political climate still fits well within what Kerrigan tries to say about self-interest and its consequences.
Merv, not above, shall we say, dedicated self-interest, was to my mind probably quietly instrumental in much of this.
And it raises a difficulty for theorists who want to say that self-interest is, in some sense, the core of all human motivation.
