Chapter 5

Question 1

Ethical egoism -

Answer 1

The theory that the right action is the one that advances one’s own best interest

Question 2

The ethical egoists is self-interested but…

Answer 2

not necessarily selfish

Question 3

Selfish acts are -

Answer 3

acts in one’s own interest regardless of how others are affected.

Question 4

Act egoism –

Answer 4

says that to determine the right action, you must apply the egoistic principle to individual acts

Question 5

Rule egoism -

Answer 5

says that to determine right action, you must see if an act falls under a rule that if consistently followed, would maximize your self-interest

Question 6

Self-interest can be defined in a few ways…

Answer 6

pleaures, self-actualization, security and material success, satification of desires

Question 7

Self-interest is a pillar in what?

Answer 7

capitalism

Question 8

What is the primary argument for ethical egoism?

Answer 8

psychological egoism

Question 9

Psychological egoism –

Answer 9

The scientific theory that “the motive for all our actions is self-interest”

Question 10

What are the arguments against ethical egoism?

Answer 10

• that is inconsistent with considered moral judgments such as laws, rules of convential morality
  -also inconsistent with our moral experiences - racisism - the ethical egoist artitrarily treats the interests of some people (oneself) as more important that the interest of all others(rest of world) even though there is no morally relavant different between them