PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethical Egoism, Egotism, Glaucon

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

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Because it is in your interests to be moral. If you are bad you are also harming urself in someway. The only reason you will ever do anything will beneit you. You can not believe something that is bad is good for u. Pg 75 deiniions of 2 help others to help yourself. If it isn"t guna beneit you then ethical egoism would say don"t do it. 2)you are selish if what you are doing makes you feel good: that is just what being unselish is, gets human psychology backwards. Moivated by a desire to feel good-choose things you want because it will make you feel good-do the things. Pick a thing u what-get what you want-makes you feel good. P1- they do what they most want to do. Argument 1- we don"t do what we most want to do. Case a- we do something as a means to an end-ex. go to school for degree.