Psychological egoism

This brief exchange epitomizes the difference between Roark and Toohey, between selfishness and selflessness, between egoism and altruism, between individualism and collectivism. More importantly, Roark’s simple, but powerful, answer demonstrates why selfishness is a virtue and selflessness a vice; why one represents moral integrity, and the other moral turpitude. Roark’s reply reflects his moral and intellectual independence- he is not defined by what others think- and therein lies the source…

Ethical egoism states that one should do things that benefit in their own interest. Some key features of ethical egoism are ethical subjectivism, Naïve Ethical egoism, and enlightened ethical egoism. This theory claims that we should act from self-love. However, Egoists have different views about what is good for the individual depending on the situation. In “Don’t Help Me” Kevin is confused about what steps he should take to help his friend, so I am going to advise him based on ethical egoism…

For my activity outside of class, I went out to eat with my ESL partner, went to the casino and ended the night playing pool. I had two ESL partners, but unfortunately only one was able to accompany me. At first we had planned to go to Caesars and it was supposed to be with my two ESL partners. Ariadna was not able to make it because the ESL program had a last minute activity, which was to go bowling. Olmedo told me he was still up for the casino because he did not want to go bowling. I drove…

Introduction: “Tens of thousands of people live with family violence every day ... With little or no change in the prevalence of family violence in recent years, family violence remains at shockingly high levels. Families are torn apart, lives ruined, children damaged.” Domestic violence is a prevalent and terrible issue in our society today. Globally, one in three women experience partner violence3 and 7 in 10 women murdered in Australia are victims of family violence. According to the…

punishes their child to a whole different level. There is more than one type of abuse. There is actually a lot of different types of abuse, but the three that I am going to talk about are emotional, physical and mental. Emotional abuse is ongoing psychological damage. This type includes things like public humiliation, name-calling, threatening, emotional neglect, and criticizing. Some of the signs for this are continuous complaints about a stomach ache, bedwetting, headaches, nausea, depression,…

I have this chubby Porto-Rican nurse that constantly sexually harass me, she constantly walk towards me while on break eating, working, or just doing something else. she smacks my butt, pinch my flank or coming very close to me rubbing her breast on my shoulder or my back. i even had cases of her coming to a residents room and saying stuff like am gonna fuck you in here and i know your gonna like it and sure wont stop me. I am currently not a green-card holder nor are my a citizen. I am…

“Summer Reading Essay: Prompt 1“ In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, a teenage girl, Melinda, is starting out her freshmen year in high school but unlike everyone else, she has no friends at the beginning of the school. Melinda does not have any friends at the beginning because Melinda called the cops at the back to school year party and everyone was busted. Melinda is deemed the outcast at school. No one asks Melinda what happened at the back to school party and Melinda is terrorized at school…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious problem and affects many different facets of people. Some may think that PTSD only affects those from the military, those in law enforcement, or those in some type of career where crisis’ are dealt with all of the time. This is an untrue and unfair assumption. The fact is, PTSD may have affected us all, but trauma affects everyone in a different way and we deal with things differently. PTSD is brought on usually after a traumatic event, and we…

There have been countless cases of domestic abuse in the U.S., but what most people treat as a joke, or pay no attention to at all, is when the victim turns out to be male. When looking up domestic abuse statistics or anything of the like, the results usually come up as ‘this percent of women are abused every year’ or ‘this number out of these many women are victims of domestic abuse’. Yet, there are few sources that point to men being victims of domestic abuse rather than as the abusers.…

harsh situation such as this. That’s why many veterans had PTSD forty years after the war. Fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed in the Vietnam War, but twice as much died after the war from PTSD, suicidal thoughts, depression, and by other psychological problems. Many after coming back from the war couldn’t adjust to the civilian life, and many state that the war shattered their lives. Many veterans felt forgotten, and unappreciated,…