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# Self-Love
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## Definition
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The natural human concern for one's own advantage and well-being, which Smith identifies as the more reliable foundation for economic cooperation than benevolence, since individuals are more responsive to their own interests than to others' needs.
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## Source Chapter
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Book I, Chapter 2
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## Context
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Smith argues that we address ourselves not to the humanity but to the self-love of economic actors, establishing self-interest as the fundamental principle that makes economic exchange possible and reliable.
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## Economic Domain
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General Theory
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