Can someone explain what the common usage of egoism means? It doesnt seem to mean what I thought it meant? Also delineate egoism vs egotism?
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
As philosophical stance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_egoism … Political: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoist_anarchism …
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Replying to @St_Rev @Tipsycaek
Egotism is a childish, defective self-absorption. Egoism is just basic common sense.
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Replying to @St_Rev
that was my understanding but I keep seeing it used in contexts that seemed nonsensical cuz I only knew of philo version
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Replying to @Tipsycaek
Some people misspell one as the other. Some people have weird conspiracy theories about egoists, too.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Tipsycaek
Like, instead of bankers or Jews or communists, they think a secret band of amoral Stirnerian egoists run the world.
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