Self-Interest: An Intellectual History

Ayman Reda
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Ayman Reda: The University of Michigan - Dearborn

Chapter Chapter 19 in Prophecy, Piety, and Profits, 2018, pp 263-289 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents an intellectual history of the concept of self-interest. It surveys the opinions of the Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, and the subsequent thought of the Epicureans and the Stoics. In addition, it examines the opinions of the Church Fathers, the philosophers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and the classical and neoclassical economists, with a special emphasis on Adam Smith’s concept of the impartial spectator.

Keywords: scarcityscarcityMalthusian; interestInterest; sympathySympathy; Invisible handInvisible Hand; Selfish Love (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56825-0_19

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