[PHL275H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (83 pages long)
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Giving to charities for the sake of status: in this case, sel ess means for sel ess ends. Self-interest can consist of a diverse array of pleasures: feinburg rst equates happiness/pleasure with self-interest, psychological hedonism = the doctrine that people act for the sole pleasure of personal pleasure in mind. Feinburg thus challenges the idea that pe negates morality completely. It should be noted that pe claims to explain every and all action(s), but does not base itself on any context. Acting on the basis of intuition or higher principles: altruism. Acting for others, independent of one"s own rights or duty. It should be noted that hobbes and rand believed in pe. The object of one"s desire is not identi ed nor logically lead to identifying the said object. Reinburg"s next argument (argument b) is that if a person gets what one wants, pleasure is thus achieved: e. g.
