Ethical egoism

Indian education activist Sadhu Vaswani once stated, “If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.” Love and sacrifice can be seen as the most challenging traits to display, especially when showing shared humanity, or displaying kindness, sympathy and mercy towards others. In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, he is able to demonstrate the human races’ capacity to share…

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Selfishness: An Inescapable Plague As humans, we are inconsiderate, egoistic, greedy animals who proceed down the most revolting and corrupt path in order to achieve our desired goals. Gone are our ethical values when our hunger for success and power is unleashed. Unconcerned with the wellbeing of others, our lethal daggers plunge into our vulnerable prey. Why is it that even with many witnesses, no one dares to take a step forward to save the victim? Many may feed you the generic response…

According to Google’s dictionary, self-deception is the action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or unvalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true. Us, being selfish humans, doing everything to satisfy our own ego, is the only person who we shouldn’t lie on. And certainly lying on ourselves is counter-productive. But while looking around, I can’t see but humans self-deceiving their selves including me. Admitting that we are liars hurts us. This form of dishonesty is the…

Selfishness. It’s a terrible word isn’t it? People would frown when they hear it. Nobody wants to be accused. We were taught from childhood that if you want to be good, you have to be altruistic. Thus, everyone in here may believe that selfishness is the epidemy of evilness. But is it? Selfishness is a bad word in many people’s books as it’s supposedly personified by someone who victimizes others, but let’s pause and challenge that view. The exact meaning of the word “selfishness” is to be…

The beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value and as long that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes. She is claiming that altruism has an ethical principle of helping others and from that point of view any selfish action is immoral. “Altruism,” according to Rand, means “the placing of others above self, of their interests above one’s own.” Standard dictionary definitions of “altruism,” such…

While I understand emotions often trump intellect in a post-divorce universe, but seriously Cookie, what does Kalup’s current age have anything to do with him requiring less support? He is sixteen, not eighteen and graduated from high school… currently scheduled for June of 2020. Additionally, please stop making Kalup out to be a charity, because raising him is not a game of narcissism and rewards for monetary support. Enough with the illogical reasoning’s on how you’ve paid enough, and…

People are pretty selfish and independent huh? Damn, then there's people that puts others first. Individualistic society is comprised of a group of independent people that prioritize furthering one’s own self-interests. On the other hand, collectivist societies put society’s well-being over an individuals’. In the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell there is a farm taken control by animals and where animals believe they were equal. The two main character’s of “Animal Farm” are two pigs named…

"The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, shows how the majority of society is selfish. Yet Tolstoy also suggests how even though there is so much selfishness in society, there are some exceptional people who do not follow social conventions and are the prime example of how people in a society should be. This paper will argue that being selfless is important in society and that people should deviate from individualistic behavior and concentrate more on collective behavior. Although a person…

(a) Many may question the intentions of people’s actions, whether it is for personal gain or truly attempting offer aid to an individual in distress. Empathy is seen as a leading factor that initiates someone help another. The main idea taken away from both readings in the difference between egoistic and altruistic motivation is the ultimate end goal of the person offering relief. An egoistic end goal refers to increasing personal gain or decreasing personal pain; while, an altruistic motivation…