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Enlightened self-interest is a philosophy in ethics which states that persons who act to further the interests of others (or the interests of the group or groups to which they belong), ultimately serve their own self-interest.
It has often been simply expressed by the belief that an individual, group, or even a commercial entity will "do well by doing good".
Usage examples of "enlightened self-interest".
These enthusiasts do not scruple to avow their opinion that a state can subsist without any religion better than with one, and that they are able to supply the place of any good which may be in it by a project of their own-- namely, by a sort of education they have imagined, founded in a knowledge of the physical wants of men, progressively carried to an enlightened self-interest which, when well understood, they tell us, will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.
For the same reason you mentioned why your customers don't swipe singles out of that box down there: enlightened self-interest.
They had learned the enlightened self-interest meme here, and picked up the idea of a loyal opposition.
I think we may justly cite the recently announced Beninia project as an undertaking which combines to the highest degree enlightened self-interest with the support of the deserving.
In the sweet silence, the mental processes look about for a new leader, and the leader most prompt to appear whenever the conscience is stilled, Enlightened Self-interest, _does_ appear.
Your existence, humans, is a lesson to me in enlightened self-interest.
I hoped Dad would now tender their most forceful inducement: enlightened self-interest.
If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, “.