PHI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Glaucon, Psychological Egoism, Bad Life
7 Nov 2016
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1120 9/13/2016 plato and the ring of gyges. Psychological egoism the view that all human actions are motivated ultimately by self-interest. Morality consists in the set of rules, governing how people are to treat one another, which rational people will agree to accept, for their mutual benefit, on the condition that others follow those rules as well. (r, 143) The state exists to enforce the most important rules. (r, 146) Social contract theory is the view that persons" moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. Socrates uses something quite like a social contract argument to explain why he must remain in prison and accept the death penalty. However, social contract theory is rightly associated with modern moral and political theory and is given its first full exposition and defense by thomas hobbes.
