When a general guide to behavior that endorses self-interest as primary is put forward for all to follow because acting in one 's self interest is taken as fostering the interests of all then ethical egoism can be taken as a moral theory .
In this sense ethical egoism is a moral guide only in a purely technical philosophical sense .
在这种意义上,伦理利己主义是一个仅仅具有技术意义(在哲学里)的道德准则。
He is ready , like the hungry wolf , to attack his neighbor , for he is governed by the crudest and most naked egoism .
如同饿狼,这个族群时刻准备着袭扰左邻右舍,因为主导他的是最冷酷和最露骨的利己主义。
However the current philosophical practice is to take ethical egoism as a view that promotes acting in one 's own self-interest even when this requires harming innocent people .