Egoismus
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See also: egoismus
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin egoismus, from Latin ego.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Egoismus m (strong, genitive Egoismus, no plural)
- egoism
- 1963 [1844 November 19], Friedrich Engels, “Engels an Marx in Paris No. 2”, in Marx-Engels-Werke, volume 27, page 11; English translation from “Engels to Marx in Paris No. 2”, in Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 38, translation of original in German, 1982, pages 11-12:
- Und wahr ist daran allerdings das, daß wir erst eine Sache zu unsrer eignen, egoistischen Sache machen müssen, ehe wir etwas dafür tun können - daß wir also in diesem Sinne, auch abgesehen von etwaigen materiellen Hoffnungen, auch aus Egoismus Kommunisten sind, aus Egoismus Menschen sein wollen, nicht bloße Individuen.
- And it is certainly true that we must first make a cause our own, egoistic cause, before we can do anything to further it — and hence that in this sense, irrespective of any eventual material aspirations, we are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Egoismus [sg-only, masculine, strong]
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