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selfishness

1 essay on selfishness from the Consilium journal. Featuring Bertrand Russell, Zora Neale Hurston, Baruch Spinoza. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.


Ethics

Is It Wrong to Want Something Only for Yourself?

Three thinkers on wanting things for yourself. Russell says self-absorption is where misery begins. Hurston says claiming what you want is not indulgence. Spinoza says first understand the wanting.

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