单词 | self-good |
释义 | self-goodn. Personal benefit or advantage. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > personal benefit or advantage commodity1410 singularity1426 commodomec1547 particularityc1550 commodie1575 main chance1584 self-good1594 self-interest1595 job1680 1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue Profit Imprisonm. sig. A4 What soeuer is indewd with liuing soule and sence, Seeks of it selfe selfe-good [Fr. De soy tend vers le bien]. 1618 P. Holderus tr. Plautus Truculentus in tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. C3 All men are bound their selfe-good [L. suum quemque quaestum] to procure. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 104 Nor has for Object any Self-Good or Advantage of the private System. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 59 Good for selfgood doth half destroy selfgood. 1951 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 41 313 Attaining the greatest self-good by means of a just balance or economy of the passions. 2001 B. Hutchinson G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory (2004) vii. 136 The reference to Plato as offering an antidote to the confusion regarding the perceived conflict between Good and SelfGood is puzzling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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