Is Self Interest a Guiding Principle for Human Motivation?

This book exposed a thought that I have going through this world and it's brought about, I didn't even realize that it's so strongly inside of me. It just described another motivation for another guiding principle for human motivation. And that is the appetite for rule, the appetite for power. So let me read a few parts here. The king appears in Esther as a representation of something else, something we are accustomed to recognizing in ourselves and others - an appetite for rule. As the appetite for food drives him towards his supper, so too did the appetite for control drive man to rule his world. Or if he cannot to find someone who can rule it in his place and provide him with the