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 topic overview
The analysis highlights Divergent views, Psychology and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Selfishness.
Related topics
51
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
54
Extracted relationships
67
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
54
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Divergent views · 42 topics
Psychology · 6 topics
Overview · 3 topics
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Key facts & relationships
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How Selfishness connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Selfishness shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Selfishness → Ayn Rand, Basic Books, Cooperation, Eerdmans, Eerdmans Publishing Co, Grand Rapids, ISBN, John Rawls, Justice, MI, Paul Vitz, Psychology, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Robert Axelrod, Seabury, Self-worship, Selfish Gene, The Art, The Cult Another extracted example is Selfishness → Aristippus, China, Cyrenaic, Cyrenaics, Cyrene, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greece, Greek, Max Stirner, Some, Taoism, The, Thomas Hobbes, Yang Zhu, Yangism, Yangists. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Selfishness
Top relations
related to Further reading· 23
Selfishness → Ayn Rand, Basic Books, Cooperation, Eerdmans, Eerdmans Publishing Co, Grand Rapids, ISBN, John Rawls, Justice, MI, Paul Vitz, Psychology, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Robert Axelrod, Seabury, Self-worship, Selfish Gene, The Art, The Cult
related to Divergent views· 16
Selfishness → Aristippus, China, Cyrenaic, Cyrenaics, Cyrene, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greece, Greek, Max Stirner, Some, Taoism, The, Thomas Hobbes, Yang Zhu, Yangism, Yangists
related to Modern· 9
Selfishness → Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Bernard Mandeville, John Locke, Locke, These, This, Thus, With
related to Ecology· 6
Selfishness → But, During, For, In, In Charles Darwin's, They
related to Classical· 3
Selfishness → Aristotle, Foucault, Seneca
related to Medieval/Renaissance· 3
Selfishness → Francis Bacon, Western Christian, Wisdom
is a· 2
Selfishness → opposite of altruism or selflessness, 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…
related to Psychology· 2
Selfishness → Lack, The
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
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Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 67 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.
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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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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
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.
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Ayn
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Rand
Virtue
Psychological
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
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.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Selfishness
Nodes55
Edges54
Triples67
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1
Source & methodology
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.
