Concept information
Preferred term
motives and self-interest
Definition
- Voluntary human actions—those actions with which ethics is primarily concerned—typically arise as an agent seeks to satisfy a desire. Satisfying desires, moreover, is typically in an agent's interest. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Motives and Self-Interest]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/motives_and_self-interest
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