Ultimate Choice

Question 1

Who is the author of Ultimate Choice

Answer 1

Peter Singers

Question 2

What does Peter Singers try to argue in Ultimate Choice. How are we to live?

Answer 2

Peter Singers argues that living an ethical life over a self-interest-orientated life is a choice we all should make.

Choosing an ethical life means you’re connecting yourself with a larger goal and a more meaningful life, thus becoming happier than a self-interested life.

Question 3

What is the relationship between ethics and self-interest?

Answer 3

There is always a clash between ethics and self-interest through everyday life choices.

Question 4

What is the Ultimate Choice itself?

Answer 4

The “ultimate choice” is the term when it comes to making a <Choice> between pursuing our self-interests and ethical convictions.</Choice>

These ultimate choices DEFINES our character, and our way of living, and the most fundamental decisions we can make are called “ultimate choice”.

Question 5

What you shouldn’t do when it comes to making the Ultimate Choice

Answer 5

I should NOT make an ethical decision based on a framework that maximizes my self-interest.

Question 6

What is the Paradox of Hedonism?

Answer 6

It is the pursuit of self-interest and continuing everyday life choices without any meaning other than fulfilling our own pleasure and satisfaction (bodily pleasure).

It is paradoxical because these choices don’t lead to true happiness in the long term.

Human beings can truly be happy in the long-term if they’ve earned it by achieving a deeper goal

Question 7

What is the Prisoner’s Dilemma?

Answer 7

A concept where everyone loses in a situation despite involving sacrifices and it leads to the same negative consequence. If two parties sacrifice nothing, then both will lose for the long-term

If YOU and your PARTNER don’t cooperate with each other, don’t compromise, and don’t self-sacrifice. Then WE will be led to a bad consequence and LOSE.

Question 8

With the relationship between ethics and self-interest. Why do we choose self-interest over ethics?

Answer 8

We chose to pursue self-interest because it comes from an uncertainty of what is a rational decision to do as every situation is different and complex.