Assertion: psychological egoism | /r/HasProperty | descriptive theory
Facets:
value: purely
type: DEGREE
value: about motivation to the effect
type: OTHER
value: in that
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Psychological egoism is a descriptive theory resulting from observations from human behavior.
text: But psychological egoism is a descriptive thesis.
text: Psychological egoism is descriptive in that, the theory states that it makes no claim as to how one should act.
text: As I briefly mentioned above, psychological egoism is a descriptive theory (meaning a theory based on observation) that is largely regarded as the theory that best explains human behavior.
text: Psychological egoism is a descriptive theory based on actual observations.
text: Psychological Egoism is a descriptive theory, according to which each person in fact pursues only his or her own self-interest.
text: Psychological Egoism is a descriptive theory that rather than suggesting, as ethical or rational egoism does, how people ought to live, suggests how people actually go about their lives.
text: Psychological egoism is a purely descriptive theory that purports to describe a basic fact about human nature.
text: Psychological egoism is a purely descriptive theory that purports to describe a basic fact about human nature.
text: Psychological egoism is a descriptive thesis about motivation to the effect that we can only act on motives that are in our own self-interests.