PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Rachels, Consequentialism, Egotism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 120W
• Professor: Simon Pollon

Document Summary

So is someone that helps people and likes it/helps people but hates it: a selfish person is someone that helps people but hates it. Does not refute psychological egoism: that person is still gaining pleasant state of consciousness from helping people, you need to care about something first before made to feel good from getting it. Therefore, you want that thing because it is going to make you feel good. Have you ever done something even though you knew you wouldn"t feel good in the end: a) self-interested and selfish may not be the same thing. Going to the denist = self-interest but not selfish. James rachels has set things up when he described psychological egoism. Accused psychological egoist for proposing a false thing: Interested in yourself: if not interested in others, then you must be interested in yourself, psychological egoist defends themselves by, addictive behaviour may not be motivated by self-interest/altruistic interest.