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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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The extracted context around Selfishness shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Selfishness → Aristippus, China, Cyrenaic, Cyrenaics, Cyrene, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greece, Greek, Max Stirner, Taoism, Thomas Hobbes, Yang Zhu, Yangism, Yangists Another extracted example is Selfishness → Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Bernard Mandeville, John Locke, Locke, Thus. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 33 structured relationships around Selfishness. Examples in this analysis include Selfishness → is a → opposite of altruism or selflessness and 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…. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Yangism | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | China | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | Cyrenaic | 0.60 | section |
| Selfishness | related to Divergent views | Greece | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Selfishness bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ayn, Opposed and Rand. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Selfishness, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Selfishness with Divergent views. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Selfishness to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Divergent views, Psychology & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Selfishness · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout
