A Treatise, Part 1

[douglashdewing]

A sad conclusion was reached today when I realize that my family, even after twenty five years of familiarity, does not know me very well. I say this after a discussion with my own mother, even though I proclaimed that a recent date was fine, felt that I meant that in a very negative way. Therefor, I intend to begin a series of entries to explain

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Pontification

[anonymous]

EGOISM, a philosophy first proposed by Thomas Hobbes and popularized in the twentieth century among naive collegiates and ignorant housewives by Ayn Rand, falls victim to several basic fallacies of philosophical thought

[anonymous]

Critique #2: Self-interest and interest in the welfare of others aren't necessarily incompatible. One might be perfectly self-interested and look out for the interests of others - e.g., a shopkeeper who never cheats his customers simply because he knows honesty is good for business