The Egoist

to protect and serve. We as Americans tend hold law enforcement personnel higher standard because we hope they have the moral virtue to do what is right and lead by example to make a unit run efficiently. However, when a leader is a psychological egoist with a utilitarian view, many times he/she tips the scales of right and wrong in order to give their subordinates what they desire to make them happy, content and submissive. Even if this means allowing the subordinates are not following…

In the critique “Egoism and Altruism,” Louis P. Pojman strongly rejects the idea of Ayn Rand that everyone should have and egoist morality by explaining the “false dilemma” created between egoism and altruism. He explains that her idea of egoism stating that she believes “selfishness is a virtue and altruism is a vice.” He argues that while some egoist traits are morally necessary, such as self-love and self-interest, they should not be brought about or acted upon at the cost of someone else’s…

with an iron fist is there is going to be peace. However, experiments from other governments have shown that the majority of the people are not egoist and those that would thrive in a chaotic society make up a small section of the community. It would be impossible for there to have democracies around the world if all the people were egoists. Even with egoists, what is needed is to have fair laws that help to prove that indeed a person wanted to benefit unfairly at the expense of the other.…

Selfish vs Selfless The psychological egoist said to the psychological altruist “Dude, all behavior is ultimately motivated by self-interest.” The psychological altruist replied “Well… at least some prosocial behavior is ultimately motivated by the concern for the well-being of others.” While these two opponents may have their certain reasons for backing up their statements, I am going to let you know what the deal is and why certain people might believe that the opposing view is false. You can…

But as an egoist, I need not worry myself with calculating the sum total of happiness or the categorical imperative. I need only weigh what my own interests are in this given situation. What is in my best interest? That’s the only question that an egoist needs to answer. In this scenario, I am the trolley driver. The people on the tracks are workers. These seemingly insignificant details are important to the egoist. If I were not the driver, I wouldn’t have any…

Anthony Hicks S. Bain PHL 206 24 September 2017 A Ethical Egoist on Abortion One of the most debated upon topics in ethics is abortion. People feel one way or another about abortion, either they are pro-life or pro-choice. This makes the debate a little bit heated. The two choices are very difficult to choose from, but the ethical implications on abortion makes it that much more difficult. There are two ways the most people look at the topic; either they believe that it is not morally right to…

essentially their morality. Placing self-interest before anyone else is the ideology of Egoism. There is two parts to egoism, First part is ethical egoism and the second part is psychological egoism. The two circled by the thought of self-interest. Egoist thinks of themselves as they are the most significant person. However, a person with egotistic interior appears as if they are going out of their way to help someone, but they are only helping that individual for self-interest. It is…

Most persuasive: Utilitarianism Mill’s theory of utilitarianism is based on “greatest happiness principle” that says “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, Chapter 5). Mill defines happiness as pleasure and absence of pain. According to Mill, morality is based on the quality and quantity of pleasure produced by an action. It is not what you do, but how much of…

Adrift in a Moral Sea Life often throws people some difficult challenges where there ends up being more than one right course of action. Everyone has their own different morals that they have acquired through out their life and this helps them decide which ethical perspective that they believe in. One instance, of where you can look at multiple ethical perspectives to solve a problem comes from the essay “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Harden, which is about being shipwrecked in the middle of the…

their consequences” (Smart 78). Utilitarians are groups of individuals who believe in the theory of helping others and making our world a better place, no matter what religion one is. Ethical egoist are another group of individuals who can fulfill their duty in life without religious beliefs. Ethical egoist are people who believe that their “actions are morally right just because they best promote one 's self-interest” (Shafer-Landau 107). I want to argue that the atheist individuals in our…