Enlightened self-interest
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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.
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See also
- Adam Smith and the "invisible hand"
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Aristotle and virtue ethics
- Behavioral economics
- Ethical egoism
- Friedrich Nietzsche and the "will to power"
- Helping behavior
- Identity politics
- Psychological egoism
- Rational egoism
- Reciprocal altruism
- Thomas Hobbes
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