Hello from Carmen and negative cast
Carmen Clark
ceclark at students.wisc.edu
Fri Oct 8 01:13:08 CEST 2010
Hello.
I was about to list myself as an egoist on a dating site, and decided
to search the term. It amazed and puzzled me that the definitions
were so negative. The implication was that if one were acting in his/
her own interest, that they were down on others. I didn't get that
from Stirner, rather, that a union of egoists were people united
around a specific purpose in their common interest.
I remember getting quite a start from my philosophy professor (a moral
philosopher) when I asked about egoism. I think it's getting too
narrow a rap, and negative overtones needlessly.
e.g., "Egoist: a conceited and self-centered person."
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Sheesh.
The Webster's wasn't quite as bad, but come on, people. That's quite
a misrepresentation.
Here's a
I remember arguing on this list years ago that a Marxist could have
much in common with egoism, in the sense that people need to act in
their own interest, which is often held in common with others who sell
their labor and share a common relationship to the means of
production, and I would add today, elite capital.
Carmen
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=HzK&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&defl=en&q=define:egoism&sa=X&ei=KFOuTJyRFsbCnAes6dD-BQ&ved=0CBIQkAE
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