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Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others. Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness, and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis) with self-centeredness.
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| Selfishness | is a | opposite of altruism or selflessness | 0.90 | text |
| Selfishness | is a | virtue.Roman Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain opposed the latter view by way of the Aristotelian argument that framing the fundamental question of politics as a choice betw… | 0.90 | text |
| socialism | instance of | unlike political ideologies | 0.80 | text |
| Locke | instance of | unlike political ideologies | 0.80 | text |
| other classical liberals believe that selfishness is engrained in human nature | instance of | unlike political ideologies | 0.80 | text |
| Selfishness | related to Classical | Aristotle | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Classical | Seneca | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Classical | Foucault | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | The | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | Some | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | Yangism | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | China | 0.60 | section |
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