Charles Handy article on proper selfishness in modern society and discovering individual identity. Handy defines proper selfishness as acceptance that it's proper to be concerned with ourselves and a search for whom we really are, because that search should lead a person, in the end, to the realization that self-respect only comes from responsibility for others and other things. He proceeds to state that a proper or decent self is one in which the good is revealed and the evil restrained, and how proper self-interest is more than a matter of economic and profit gain. Handy then discusses the importance of the biblical parable of the white stone and explains its connection to the soul's journey through life to self-discovery and self-mastery.
Charles Handy article on proper selfishness in modern society and discovering individual identity, 1997; Charles Handy Papers; Box 15, Folder 1; 4 pages
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