Self-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 the reconciliation of necessary self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology brings together the work of twenty-three important philosophers to address the question of how to bring about such a reconciliation. Contributors include: Democritus Plato Aristotle Augustine of Hippo AquinasHobbes Nicole Mandeville Butler Hutchenson Hume Smith Kant Bentham Mill James Nietzsche Dewey Rand and Gauthier. . Language: English