PHIL 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egotism
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The view that all human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest. Refuted by showing the possibility of altruism. Psychological egoists explain altruistic *actions* as having *self-interested motives. Motives egoistic vs. altruistic to want x as a state for oneself to want x as a state for someone else. Self con ned: happiness, self - preservation, self of a certain kind, self-respect. Self centered: property, self - assertion, self - display. Someone wants to be an altruistic person is not an egoistic motive.
