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Psychological Egoism

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Psychological egoism is the descriptive thesis that every human action, whatever it looks like, is ultimately motivated by the agent's own self-interest.

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A firefighter enters the building, a donor writes the check, a friend keeps the secret — the thesis files all three under self-interest.