Egoism.
Egoism is concerned about selfishness or self-interest, it has to do with individualism or you don’t have to live for the sake of others. This assignment or the case study is based on prisoners which if prisoner A confesses and prisoner B remain silent, the years which they will have to serve in jail won’t be the same or their sentences won’t be the same. Firstly I will start emphasizing on psychological egoism, secondly on rational egoism and then lastly on ethical egoism.
The egoism is divided into three: which is the psychological egoism, the rational egoism and lastly the ethical egoism. The psychological egoist will say every individual is concerned about his or herself and individual’s human behavior; the prisoners are motivated by their self interest and welfare. Prisoner A may confess or may remain silent it is up to himself and prisoner B may confess or may remain silent also it is up to his self interest. They may act to increase their own benefit. Regardless of what prisoner B will say, the prisoner A may betray prisoner B because going free is better than staying 20years in jail. …show more content…
The rational self interested prisoners betrays one another, and if the prisoners try to cooperate they get betrayed because betraying other prisoner offers greater reward of getting less sentence. If they both betray each other they will serve equal and few years in jail so it is up to them to act selfishly. Since both of them want to minimize their sentence they will both confess. If both avoid confessing their sentence will also be maximized to the number of 20 years in jail. Rational prisoners betrays one another because they are self interested, that is why it is rational to act in one’s own
Egoism is concerned about selfishness or self-interest, it has to do with individualism or you don’t have to live for the sake of others. This assignment or the case study is based on prisoners which if prisoner A confesses and prisoner B remain silent, the years which they will have to serve in jail won’t be the same or their sentences won’t be the same. Firstly I will start emphasizing on psychological egoism, secondly on rational egoism and then lastly on ethical egoism.
The egoism is divided into three: which is the psychological egoism, the rational egoism and lastly the ethical egoism. The psychological egoist will say every individual is concerned about his or herself and individual’s human behavior; the prisoners are motivated by their self interest and welfare. Prisoner A may confess or may remain silent it is up to himself and prisoner B may confess or may remain silent also it is up to his self interest. They may act to increase their own benefit. Regardless of what prisoner B will say, the prisoner A may betray prisoner B because going free is better than staying 20years in jail. …show more content…
The rational self interested prisoners betrays one another, and if the prisoners try to cooperate they get betrayed because betraying other prisoner offers greater reward of getting less sentence. If they both betray each other they will serve equal and few years in jail so it is up to them to act selfishly. Since both of them want to minimize their sentence they will both confess. If both avoid confessing their sentence will also be maximized to the number of 20 years in jail. Rational prisoners betrays one another because they are self interested, that is why it is rational to act in one’s own