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Single Idea 4519
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
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Full Idea
The 'subject' is only a fiction: the ego of which one speaks when one censures egoism does not exist at all.
Clarification
The 'ego' is the self
Gist of Idea
The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §370)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.199
A Reaction
This is the true Nietzsche, the nihilistic relativist. On optimistic days he thought some people had quivering dynamic egoes, to which they apparently owe duties, as one might to a great talent with which one was born.
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[view that people should put themselves first]:
2166
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We should behave well even if invisible, for the health of the mind
[Plato]
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1636
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Wickedness is an illness of the soul
[Plato]
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3025
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For a Cyrenaic no one is of equal importance to himself
[Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius]
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88
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Nobody would choose all the good things in world, if the price was loss of identity
[Aristotle]
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91
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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best
[Aristotle]
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5856
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Self-interest is a relative good, but nobility an absolute good
[Aristotle]
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3031
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The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper
[Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1769
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Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods
[Diog. Laertius]
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4851
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Reason demands nothing contrary to nature, and so it demands self-love
[Spinoza]
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17220
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Self-satisfaction is the highest thing for which we can hope
[Spinoza]
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6235
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Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it
[Shaftesbury]
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3929
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No moral theory is of any use if it doesn't serve the interests of the individual concerned
[Hume]
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23059
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Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour
[Sidgwick, by Gray]
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2885
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The noble soul has reverence for itself
[Nietzsche]
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20248
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People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people
[Nietzsche]
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3259
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Nietzsche rejects impersonal morality, and asserts the idea of living well
[Nietzsche, by Nagel]
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4409
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Only the decline of aristocratic morality led to concerns about "egoism"
[Nietzsche]
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18327
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A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing
[Nietzsche]
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4517
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Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak
[Nietzsche]
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4519
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The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all
[Nietzsche]
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23865
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Morality would improve if people could pursue private interests
[Weil]
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23695
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Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent
[Foot]
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9241
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Loving oneself is not a failing, but is essential to a successful life
[Frankfurt]
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6704
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Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them
[Graham]
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9761
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Personal concern for one's own self widens out into concern for the impersonal
[Korsgaard]
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