Psychological Egoism

Philosophy Professor Alexander Moseley, in an Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, characterizes psychological egoism as a descriptive account of people's motivations, wherein he suggests that we are naturally driven by motives and desires of self-interests, be they immediate ends or ultimate ends sought.

There is much to what he says. As I have written elsewhere, this is descriptive, describing how  humans are. Moseley refers to it as descriptive egoism. I believe instead, that how we are naturally, a descriptive accounting of our egoistic tendencies, is that we are primarily psychological altruists. We are motivated by chasing after the groups' interests. Only in a small way, I believe are people naturally psychological egoists.

Our natural psychological altruism, our selflessness, our self-loathing, is what makes us basically evil and selfish.

If we were natural psychological egoists, our self-interest would be a sensible, enlightened, rational self-interest would make us mostly self-absorbed, but not in a selfish, sordid way, but in  a logical, generous, humane way that benefits the self first, and others, secondarily. As psychological egoists, we would be angelic, and closer to the basic natures of the Mother and the Father, than Satan and Lera.