Rational egoism (also called rational selfishness) is the principle that an action is rational if and only if it maximizes one’s self-interest. The view is a normative form of egoism. It is distinct from psychological egoism (according to which people are motivated only to act in their own self-interest) and ethical egoism (that moral agents…

Character creation (also character generation or character design) is the process of defining a game character or other character. Typically, a character’s individual strengths and weaknesses are represented by a set of statistics. Games with a largely fictional setting may include traits such as race and class. Games with a more contemporary or narrower setting…

Ma Anand Sheela (Gujarati: માં આનંદ શિલા; born 28 December 1949 as Sheela Ambalal Patel in India, also known as Sheela Birnstiel) is an Indian-born American–Swiss former spokesperson of the Rajneesh movement and multiple convicted attempted murderer. As the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through 1985, she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in…

No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. Published after Run Melos and The Setting Sun, No Longer Human is considered Dazai’s masterpiece and ranks as the second-best selling novel in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro. The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in his preface to…

The fifth season of the television comedy series Arrested Development is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on May 29, 2018. The season will consist of 16 episodes, split into two eight-episode parts; with the second half premiering later in 2018. This is the second revival season after the series was canceled by Fox in 2006;…

Charismatic authority is a concept about leadership that was developed in 1922 by the german sociologist Max Weber. It involves a type of organization or a type of leadership in which authority derives from the charisma of the leader. This stands in contrast to two other types of authority: legal authority and traditional authority. Each…