What does Rational Egoism by Chernyshevsky in Community Country?

Abstract

In his article, the author tries to figure out how to put together the idea of rational egoism Russian thinker that is reasonable to selfishness, that is the beginning of the personal and impersonal communal idea. He comes to the conclusion that this is the realist view, trying to come not from a science fiction utopian hopes and realities of human life and Russian. As thinkers of the past (Machiavelli, Spinoza) Chernyshevsky believed that self-interest – given, it can not get rid of, but you can redirect to another benefit , pa – reasonable to. I must see their benefit in the benefit You. And the community – a fact of Russia, but this datum is necessary to find mechanisms that turn it into a defender of the individual.