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The implications of selfishness have inspired divergent views within religious, philosophical, psychological, economic, and evolutionary contexts. Some early examples of "selfist" thinking are the egoistic philosophies of Yangism in ancient China and of Cyrenaic hedonism in ancient Greece.
Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action.. Altruism is the concern for the well-being of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity.. The word altruism was popularised (and possibly coined) by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in French, as altruisme, for an antonym of egoism. [1]
The selfish-selfless spectrum. It is helpful to understand the neurobiology of the selfish–selfless spectrum and how we can refocus ourselves to maximize our well-being. Rather than rigidly ...
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As Gerard Hughes points out, in Books VIII and IX of his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives examples of philia including: . young lovers (1156b2), lifelong friends (1156b12), cities with one another (1157a26), political or business contacts (1158a28), parents and children (1158b20), fellow-voyagers and fellow-soldiers (1159b28), members of the same religious society (1160a19), or of the same ...
Selfless may refer to: SteveWillDoIt Selflessness, the act of sacrificing one's own interest for the greater good Selfless service; Selfless, a 1994 album by English industrial metal band Godflesh; Self/less, a 2015 film starring Ryan Reynolds "Selfless" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 2002 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
Translations of Śūnyatā; English: emptiness, voidness, vacuity, openness, thusness, nothingness: Sanskrit: Śūnyatā (Devanagari: शून्यता)Pali ...