Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism

Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism

Roughly, psychological egoism is the thesis that all of a person's intentional actions are ultimately self-interested in some sense; psychological altruism is the thesis that some people's intentional actions are ultimately otherregarding in some sense. C. Daniel Batson and other social psychologists have argued that there are experiments that provide support for a theory called the ―empathy-al...

Egoism, Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism

Egoism The term “egoism” is ordinarily used to mean “exclusive concern with satisfying one’s own desires, getting what one wants.” Dictionaries tend to support this. They call “egoism”, for instance, “1. selfishness; self-interest. 2. conceit.” The term “egotist” is often a substitute, although it’s defined differently, for example, as “excessive reference to oneself.” The ego is the self. But ...

Psychological Egoism

A comparative study on ethical egoism and psychological egoism

Egoism is considered as one of the common ethical trends. On egoism, one should act in such a manner that provides the most charities and utilties. Egoism appears in two fields of ethics and psychology. These two types of egoism differ in some aspects and resemble in some others. In this paper, two fields of egoism have been studied with a critic-analytical approach. Further, the proof by love ...

Ix. Ethical Egoism and Psychological Dispositions

IN their endeavors to show that ethical egoism is an unacceptable moral theory, moral philosophers have tended to argue that either (a) the theory is internally inconsistent, (b) an ethical egoist is committed to a form of solipsism, or (c) the theory cannot, properly speaking, be considered a moral theory.l It would seem, though, that such arguments have not been particularly persuasive. Howev...