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EGO. I, myself. This term is used in forming genealogical tables, to represent the person who is the object of inquiry.

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Tactical patronage is a means not only for consolidating power in ways that allow patrons to increase or maintain their scope of power or influence but for transforming his or her latent, private, egoistical intention into a visible, public, altruistic good or service.
Opera as social manifest: Madlena Zepter's private opera house and theatre as corporate gift to the Serbian Nation
Following this path, the term "bankocracy" has appeared in the context of banks geffing transformed into institutions with huge revenues, too complacent in the opinion of the whole society, and criticized for: too large receipts, excessive profits, too high fees, excessive egoistical conservatism, excessive aggressiveness, too large dimensions, lack of kindness towards smaller customers, lack of interest in human issues, too expanded bureaucracy, detachment from real social needs, and too elegant headquarters.
Financialization and the cultural attitude of polish society towards the banking sector
Human beings are seen as egoistical, self-seeking and largely self-reliant creatures.
Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
Meanwhile, 72.3 percent of those surveyed find the supporters of other parties "arrogant," 78.8 percent find them "egoistical," 79.3 percent think that they are "a threat to the country," 79.6 percent find other parties' supporters to be "brutal" and 78.3 percent "two-faced."
Polarized Turkey: no longer a nation?
(25) If the foregoing is right, de re moral motivation is (or includes) the motivation to be moderately altruistic and/or to reduce suffering (and conversely, a de re motivation to do the wrong thing would be a motivation to be egoistical and/ or to increase suffering).
Facing death from a safe distance: samvega and moral psychology
This is where the error inherent in the cold, self-interested and egoistical system known as "national interest" emerges.
The cynicism of realpolitik
Although individuals may report altruistic feelings or intrinsic factors are the impetus of prosocial intentions and behaviors, a willingness to volunteer may also be influenced by egoistical feelings activated by extrinsic forces.
Volunteerism among dental hygienists: the relationship between a practice act incentive, behaviors, perceptions and motivational orientations
The egoistical selfishness devastates any hope of deliverance for Marcher, transmuting him from the hunter to the hunted.
Henry James's apocalyptic prophecy: British Empire, biblical revelation, and "The Beast in the Jungle"
By creating new contingencies for a new Prospero in her time, she had a main focus: just to represent a comic reality in which characters undergo lots of metamorphic processes, but in fact little change is obtained within their structure, or in other words the price is too dear for those like Narcissistic and egoistical Arrowby who confuse art to life, by committing a moral error.
Iris confesses
"The GDL is taking Deutsche Bahn customers hostage for egoistical reasons to get more power," said BDA president Ingo Kramer.
Train strike spreads to German passenger routes, millions delayed
The division of labour that people actually experience is nevertheless forced, egoistical, anomic and riddled with individual despair and conflict and this has become increasingly so in recent years with significant economic recession and ongoing austerity.
Theorising the radical moral communitarian agenda
She could not help feeling monstrously piqued by her brother's egoistical demeanour.
Rescinding Orthodoxy, resuscitating the mother tongue: daughter tongue interferes in African female narratives

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