The Egoist

second as one that is immoral. Self love is one’s concern for their well being in the long term. Thought egoists would state that they are equatable with desires for wealth, pleasure, power or fame, a key difference in Bishop’s theory is that he feels they are not to be equated. Bishop felt as if self-love should lead to security and long-term happiness for individuals, and the indulgences egoists related to this concept are immoral in nature. People who utilize elements of self-love engage in…

Selfishness vs. Altruism Introduction There are many moral theories in the study of ethics, however no two theories are quite as different as utilitarianism and ethical egoism. In this essay I will be exploring the utilitarian approach and the ethical egoist approach to morality, showing their strength and weakness, and finally explaining why the utilitarian approach is a better moral theory. The Utilitarian Approach Utilitarianism is a consequential moral theory that focuses on producing the…

Ethical Dilemma II – Anti-trust Laws and Marketing At the epicenter of the antitrust laws throughout the world sits the belief that the economy and the public will profit most from an economic system that operates in a free market subject to strong competition and free from irrational limitations. Every company should heartily support the antitrust laws and the principles behind them. Cooperation with these laws needs to be the policy of every company and the responsibility of each employee.…

viewer. However, abusive power occurs continentally throughout businesses. The movie gets its viewer to analyze how they treat others. Miranda intimidates, degrades, and humiliates anyone that she comes in contact with. Miranda is an individual ethical egoist, which means that she believes everyone should only care about her thoughts or opinions. She lacks some basic human responsibilities, such as being nice and showing gratitude. Miranda also used someone to get ahead. According to practical…

Egoism Wk2RobinsonK 03/12/2017 Using the Ethical Analysis Tool, this paper will review the moral justification in using the ring of Gyges for my own benefit from a virtue ethicist’s position. It will also explain if a virtual ethicist and an ethical egoist take the same situation. Virtue ethics is defined as the virtue of a person in doing one’s duty or acting in a way to bring about good consequences. A virtuous person can be described as one with typical character traits always…

Ethical Egoist: Ethical Egoists tend to divide the world into two categories: oneself and everyone else; emphasizing the interests of the first group over the second. However, Ethical Egoists don’t simply act on desire, but rather on what kind of desire one wishes to pursue. In the passage provided we accepted the responsibility of delivering the contents of the case to her nephew living in another state not because it is in our best interest to do so, but because doing so promotes the…

In this scenario, it reads “Terrorists have a planted a small nuclear device in an apartment building in London, and it is set to go off in two hours. If it goes off, it will kill thousands of people and injure thousands more. It will destroy a large part of the city. The terrorist group that planted the bomb has been under surveillance by the police. The police suspect that a devastating terrorist attack has been planned; they have been monitoring telephone conversations and emails for months.…

Morality in egoism is anything that improves your own well being. If the captain of the ship were to make his decision from an ethical egoists’ point of view he would realize that not only would throwing the weak passenger overboard maximize their chances of survival, but it would also improve his own well being as well. Therefore, the only decision through an egoists’ point of view would be to throw the passengers overboard since it maximizes his well-being. From examining both…

Throughout time, there has been a natural inclination to explore the unknown. From the Vikings of old, to the voyagers of Europe, to the settlers of America, and the explorers of the Arctic poles, there has always been a desire to go into the depths of the unknown and see what kind of amazing things lie just beyond our reach. However, this desire has not stopped with the edges of the Earth but has launched us into the very depths of space. From space exploration to landing on the moon our desire…

person’s self-interest, however they differ because one is you are morally obligated to help others and the other says that people will only help others if they chose to. Author Joshua May did a great job explaining the claim, “Roughly, psychological egoists claim that all of a person’s intentional actions are ultimately self-interested or selfish in some sense;…