Selfishness Information
Selfishness is commonly denoted by strong concern with oneself or concern with one's own interests, to the detriment of others.[1] Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness.
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Game theory
Given two actors, oneself and someone else, there are four types of possible behavior directly impacting the welfare of the actors; selfishness, altruism, spite, and cooperation. Selfishness harming someone else in order to help oneself; Altruism is harming oneself in order to help someone else; Spite is harming oneself in order to harm someone else; Cooperation is helping someone else and also helping oneself.
The implications of selfishness have inspired divergent views within religious, philosophical, psychological, economic and evolutionary contexts.
See also
- Egotism
- Enlightened self-interest
- Ethic of reciprocity (the "Golden Rule")
- Generosity
- Little Miss Selfish
- Narcissism
- Objectivism
- Self-serving bias
- Solipsism
References
- ^ Selfishness, The Free Dictionary, accessed on 17 December 2011
Further reading
- A Theory of Justice (by John Rawls)
- Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (February 15, 1990), ISBN 0140445145
- The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-02121-2
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins (1990), second edition—includes two chapters about the evolution of cooperation, ISBN 0-19-286092-5
- The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, ISBN 0451163931
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