Terbor assumes that people think of egoism as something that is bad or wrong, and he challenges these assumptions: “This kind of response is understandable due to negative contemporary associations...

Terbor assumes that people think of egoism as something that is bad or wrong, and he challenges these assumptions: “This kind of response is understandable due to negative contemporary associations with selfishness and egoism” (par. 12).

Do your views about having a big ego align with Terbor’s characterization of “negative contemporary associations with the concept of egoism?” Explain your answer.

Terbor looks back to Aristotle to support his point that being motivated by ego is not necessarily negative. Are there current examples you can think of to support this idea?