Ethical Egoism

Question 1

What is psychological egoism?

Answer 1

the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness

Question 2

What is Ethical Egoism?

Answer 2

an ethical view where an action is moral if it results in pleasure for you

Question 3

What is altruism?

Answer 3

selfless concern for the well-being of others

Question 4

What is a long-term self interest?

Answer 4

following rules which do not immediately gratify you in order to achieve gratification in the future

Question 5

What are teleological ethics?

Answer 5

ethics where morality is determined on the outcome of the action

Question 6

What is a consequentialist theory?

Answer 6

the morality is based by aiming to achieve a consequence befitting of the ethical theory

Question 7

What is satisfaction?

Answer 7

happiness with an outcome

Question 8

What is individual ethical egoism?

Answer 8

what is moral is what is good for me

Question 9

What is universal ethical egoism?

Answer 9

everyone should do what is best for themselves

Question 10

What is an egotist?

Answer 10

a person who is excessively conceited or absorbed in themselves

Question 11

What is an egoist?

Answer 11

a follower of ego ethics, they are not selfish solely for being cruel

Question 12

What are “spooks”

Answer 12

a concept max stirner believes falsely possesses people to believe they are fulfilling a higher cause, these are usually societal institutions such as church and school.

Question 13

What is an unwilling egoist?

Answer 13

a person who is possessed by spooks into believing they are fulfilling a higher cause

Question 14

What is a union of egoists?

Answer 14

a group of egoists that band together to give themselves pleasure through a relationship with another person

Question 15

What is the normative theory?

Answer 15

a position where the prime consideration is the effects of one’s actions on oneself

Question 16

What did Thomas Hobbes observe about what would occur if everyone became an egoist?

Answer 16

if everyone freely helped themselves to what is not theirs we would all end up worse off.

Question 17

What did Thomas Hobbes suggest to prevent the issues of universal egoism?

Answer 17

His conclusion was that we all agree to rules where our immediate self-interest is replaced by a longer-term self-interest

Question 18

What is a willing egoist?

Answer 18

where you are able to freely choose your own actions, fully aware that they are only fulfilling your own desires, instead of being possessed by the belief that they are fulfilling a higher cause.