Enlightened Self-Interest and Narrow Self-Interest

While 'enlightened self-interest' and 'narrow self-interest' are sometimes used as antitheses, they are, rather, incommensurate. For, the former connotes an absolute condition, the logically proper opposite of which is the unused 'unenlightened self-interest', the latter is a comparative term, the proper opposite of which is 'broad'. Now, insofar as the Capitalist 'self' is Atomic, 'enlightenment' could consist in the crossing of the threshold from Self- to Other-Interest, though that would leave unrecognized any further transcendence, e. g. from the assumption of partisan goals, to that of general ones, e. g. the wealth of a nation. An alternative is to define the moment of 'enlightenment' as a transition from an Atomist to an Ordinal concept of social experience, i. e. from a discontinuous to a continuous concept of the I-Other relation, within which 'narrow' is distinguished from 'broad', or, more properly, 'narrower' from 'broader'. Regardless, no adoption of any such more rigorous parlance seems imminent.