Whats wrong with being egoist?

Answer 1

Our ego won't let us have peace nor would give any peace to anyone else... and hence only earn hatred or distance from others. We would merely end up lonely and dissatisfied with ourselves. In my experience, happy are those moments when we are able to forget ourselves completely!!

Answer 2

What's an egoist?
Do you mean an egotist? Like someone who is full of themselves?

Plenty is wrong because those people are selfish and there will be a lot of disharmony with them. We have to work together if we want peace and harmony. It means compromise and communication. It means working together for a common goal. It means being able to look each other in the eye.

Answer 3

What is the self,or I or "ego," that an egoist presumably wants to serve? The Cartesian I who thinks? or something more embodied? Or,perhaps, a social role played by a certain animated body over time? Or the present-generation instantiation of a gene line?

The first problem with philosophical egoism is that its quite vague.

Answer 4

Nothing is wrong because being an egoist is normal. Every person value themselves since it is themselves that needs to be given attention to before someone else. It is difficult to move on in this world without first knowingh thyself. Egoist is core of oneself. It is keeping all the desire for oneself. The desire to be at edge to everyone around him or her. Indeed, this is very innate in humans.

Answer 5

One school of philosophical thought sees us as all egoists - that is, centred like the child we once were solely on making sure that our own personal needs are met. Trouble is, we can't operate like this because if everyone acted like this we'd get nothing done collectively. So we tacitly agree to put that total egoist position aside and compromise with others to get our needs met in a communal context. This is called the "social contract" theory of human morality, which tries to answer the question - why do anything moral? In this viewpoint we try to get on with others and compromise because it actually benefits us - to help others is also to help ourselves. How? If we instinctively perform a selfless act we are unconsciously acting out our in-built biology - to help the group to survive helps me. Why? It could be me in need and if I help this person, perhaps one day if I was in need... The other way this benefits our survival is that the protection of the social group has become more survival-critical to individuals than solo self-protection. Humans have few in-built weapons (no claws, fangs, stingers, poison, spines), so our brain became the key weapon for survival. And as 6.5 billion egoists, negotiating the tricky maze of social contracts to survive and prosper is arguably harder than total ego-oriented singular existence at the expense of all others. It was the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes who said in the 1400s that without social contracts to act morally an individual life would be "nasty, brutish and short". This is a short summation of the social contract theory of why were are all egosists but still try to get along with others.

Answer 6

There are many pros and cons. You drive away the people you love, and when you reject to help someone, the tide will turn back against you someday.
Also, the egoists are usually the ones who become the most wealthy and powerful people because they are so obsessed.
But wealth and power is not everything in this world....

Answer 7

An egoist, then, might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egoist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Answer 8

Nothing wrong. Only thing is that normally egoists will be smart and intelligent and find it difficult to adjust with less intelligent and less smart people. Since they are normally capable to any thing and efficient they have difficulty in working or moving with others and hence the ego.

Answer 9

If you mean by having confidence in your self, high self esteem,and secure in your beliefs. There is nothing wrong with it. It is only wrong if you have an "attitude" and a chip on your shoulder, and you flaunt it.

People enjoy others with confidence, and can have an intelligent debate on any given subject. But if you do not yield, and you remain obstinate, and stubborn because of your ego then people will shy away from you. You might have won the battle, but you lost the war.

Answer 10

It depends on our definition. Generally we are an awareness. That is as close as we have gotten to what we are. If we identify with our thoughts, ideas, feelings and opinions to much as being us then, because they change by the moment, then we become unstable. Alternatively to be stable we have to change everyone around us, hence a Hitler etc. If we realize that we are not our thoughts but only have thoughts, then we are more adaptable without being unstable. Ego is often a finger on the scale of reality and obscures our view. I like to be as kind to others as I am to myself and as kind to myself as I am to others. That way I treat them real nice and it works great for relationships also. The subconscious is impartial and will 'punish' with any judgmental or negative words you use. Descriptive words are more accurate and scientific and clear the brain. The net result of studying what's going on in psychiatry today is a jump in IQ, getting in touch with our humanity, happiness, self control, for losing weight for instance, and the rest of the brain, as that is where the right brain is 'at'. When we get in touch with it, we are in touch with ourselves. That's an expansion of the theory of relativity. We relate better to ourselves, others and ideas and see mostly the good in life we have missed all our lives. That should flip your brain into the new reality or paradigm shift they have been predicting for decades now.

Answer 11

Being egoistic speaks to pride of oneself. I suppose you know 6000 years of experience and wisdom considers pride one of the most deadliest sins. T4