PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethical Egoism, Glaucon, Egotism
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Glaucon"s question: the socratic/christian answer, the prinsoners dilemma, 3 critiqued of ethical egoism. Ethical egoism: attempt to be a moral theory, has an ambiguous status. About justice -> why should i be just? the concept of morality. Once we establish this, people must constrain themselves and cooperate to achieve ends. The view that for each of us its best to perform only these actions that are aimed in the first place in fulfilling our own desires and interests (normative claim) 25: the intermediate between the best and the worst the passage is saying ethical egoism is true. Socrates questions this and the response he received was that there are two scenarios. I can do injustice without getting punished. You suffer injustice and cannot retaliate (victim) What we really want to do is injustice but fear being on the short end of the stick so we create a middle option although we"d rather do what we want for ourselves.
