self-concern

(5) On page 369, Parfit describes Kant's formula as describing "a higher-level wrong-making property or fact under which all other such properties or facts can be subsumed, or gathered." But why cannot that be true of self-concern? The egoist's self-concern is not what comes into mind when making moral judgments.

As discussed, mum behavior often arises out of self-concern (Tesser and Rosen, 1975).

The findings also strongly support the Heckausen (1982) who believed that it is the self-concern and not the emotionality that correlate negatively with the performance.

obligatory self-concern: the sanctification of my own soul.

The rupture in an individual's conceived capacity to engage productively in the external world suggests that there exists another dimension to bodily self-concern. Giddens effectively rephrases Lasch's theory of a relationship between the "apocalyptic nature of modern social life" and a "hunger for psychic security" that gives rise to narcissism (171).

they don't practice the self-concern that they recommend to others.

Many philosophers have taken there to be an important relation between personal identity and several of our practical concerns (among them moral responsibility, compensation, and self-concern).

(5) It shouldn't take Adam Smith to remind us that self-concern is not necessarily antithetical to--that it can accompany and foster, even be indispensable to--promotion of the well-being of others.

Personhood rests on physically instantiated capacities for sentience and self-concern. Complex though these are, there's no reason in principle why intelligent machines might not someday have moral claims on us, were they given such capacities.

The single most dominant factor that robs human beings of self-confidence is self-concern. As salespeople it literally takes our mind off the most important consideration of all: the sales prospect's problem.

You might in fact say that for Kierkegaard the proper mood for ethics involves a degree of self-concern that looks a lot like worry.

In the act of opposing formal tribute, we have undermined history; in our pursuit of equality, we have lost gallantry; in our self-concern, we have lost courtliness; in our desire for televised entertainment, we have lost the ceremony of dinner conversation.

In Virginia Woolf's description of the death of a moth, or Flaubert's sardonically tender image of a gigantic blue parrot hovering like the Holy Ghost over his heroine's deathbed in A Simple Heart, one may feel something of a relief from the otherwise unrelenting concentration on human self-concern. These tastes of natural allusion also left me wishing for samples from contemporary deep ecology exploring the near-Hindu spirituality and identifications with nature that might have given a different interpretation to our common participation in the cycles of nature.

It also implies an unacceptable trait in adults who have no interest or compassion for others, are not easily empathic, and are sometimes obnoxious in their own self-absorption and self-concern. An example of a narcissistic response would be when a man's wife dies and he asks, "How could she do this to me?" A person who is pathologically narcissistic cannot see beyond his nose and is so self-centered that his entire worldview is skewed in the direction of his own life and wishes.