rational selfishness

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.

    不可数 哲学
  2. 2.

    The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.

    不可数

    1870, Francis A Walker, An Oration at the Soldiers' Monument Dedication in North Brookfield, Goddard & Nye. [Society] has arranged all its parts and offices on the principle that a rational selfishness is the best preservative of peace, and the most efficient agent of progress; ...