Self-Interest : An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present Condition:Well Read Ella Rubenstein is forty years

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Self-Interest : An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present Condition:Well Read Ella Rubenstein is forty yearsSelf Interest discusses the reconciliation of inevitable self concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology brings together the efforts of twenty three renown philosophers to address the matter of how to bring about such a reconciliation. The drive for self preservation, as observed by Aquinas, is the first law of nature. With this self love, however, comes the threat of "the excessive love of self". Self Interest brings into discussion