IN 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Regional Policy Of The European Union, Egotism
13 Jan 2016
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Context: psychological egoism: only thing anyone is capable of desiring or acting on is his own ultimate benefit, objective is self-advantage, nature of feinburg"s approach - critiquing pe, common reasons (arguments) made for pe: a. I do what i want : whenever voluntary action, i act toward my want ii. iii. iv. Distinguishing origin of an action from objective: origin - either selfish or benevolent. Pleasure or avoidance of guilt b. c. ii. iii: why would you feel guilty about the pigs, abe? a. b. If he feels guilty, that means he cares. If he hadn"t said he would have felt guilty, one could assume that he did it for other reasons. Perhaps he was going to eat those piglets when they grew up - then the origin would be completely selfish. Pleasure as a side effect of getting what you want: sometimes, when you get what you want, you don"t feel pleasure.
