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It can be objected that enlightened self-interest* could do it. But enlightened self-interest as viewing one's personal interest in the context of system optimality can also be seen as a form of collectivism that moderates individualism by restricting it, whereas the "correct" paradigm of self-interest is one in which individual maximization spontaneously generates Pareto optimality (even though history shows that it does not tend to do so).My view, which is characteristic of one form of left libertarianism, is that enlightened self-interest is sufficient only if it exists in a culture whose collective consciousness is sufficient "high," that is, universal. This requires love, which, as it turns out, Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson is advocating. She is alone in this
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: enlightened self-interest
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It can be objected that enlightened self-interest* could do it. But enlightened self-interest as viewing one's personal interest in the context of system optimality can also be seen as a form of collectivism that moderates individualism by restricting it, whereas the "correct" paradigm of self-interest is one in which individual maximization spontaneously generates Pareto optimality (even though history shows that it does not tend to do so).My view, which is characteristic of one form of left libertarianism, is that enlightened self-interest is sufficient only if it exists in a culture whose collective consciousness is sufficient "high," that is, universal. This requires love, which, as it turns out, Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson is advocating. She is alone in this
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: enlightened self-interest
This could be interesting, too:
It can be objected that enlightened self-interest* could do it. But enlightened self-interest as viewing one's personal interest in the context of system optimality can also be seen as a form of collectivism that moderates individualism by restricting it, whereas the "correct" paradigm of self-interest is one in which individual maximization spontaneously generates Pareto optimality (even though history shows that it does not tend to do so).
My view, which is characteristic of one form of left libertarianism, is that enlightened self-interest is sufficient only if it exists in a culture whose collective consciousness is sufficient "high," that is, universal. This requires love, which, as it turns out, Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson is advocating. She is alone in this though.
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* See also Alexis DeTocqueville, Democracy in America, "HOW THE AMERICANS COMBAT INDIVIDUALISM BY THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-INTEREST RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD," Book II, Chapter 8
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Andrew J. Bacevich | Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University