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selfism

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Self´ism
n.1.Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.
selfism
the obsessive concentration on one’s self-interests. — selfist, n.
See also: Self
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What this means, of course, is that when the morality of selfism or idolatry of choice first burst into visibility in say the Summer of Love of 1968, the youth who led the charge were being obedient to their elders--revolutionary theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell and Peter Singer.
The rhetoric of "choice" and the arrival of bureaucratic despotism by Woodard, Joe / Catholic Insight
The sacredness of marriage and family life is being replaced by an idolatry of selfism that is quickly overtaking our culture in virtually one generation.
The state of Christian marriage by Clinton, Tim / Journal of Psychology and Theology
 
 
 
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