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- anti·ego·ism noun
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Origin of egoism1
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Ethical egoism – which says that the ethical thing is that which brings about the greatest happiness for oneself – is a relevant ethical theory in this situation.
He spoke continually of himself, indeed, but still in enigmas; a veiled prophet of egoism.
What delicate comprehension of everything, what a loving heart, what a complete absence of egoism!
He has attained to annihilating himself, his hateful ego; but I too; it's not from egoism, I pray not.
My sufferings, my repugnance, my feelings, all my egoism—for I know that I am an egoist—ought to be sacrificed to the family.
And when, with cynical egoism, they have collected their unnumbered dollars, what do they do with them?
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