Egoism: Igm Cases-Standard Argument Against EE
Ethical Egoism (Prescriptive Theory) * -Normative Theory * -EE Defined * -Difference from psychological egoism
-Why many philosophers reject EE * Argument from paradigm cases- standard argument against EE.
Ex: (1) If a moral theory requires you to do “x” where ”x” is a paradigm case of wrongness just because it benefits you, then that moral theory is false.(2) EE requires you to do “x” where ‘x’ is morally wrong, just because it benefits you.(3) EE is false. (I.e.: murder, rape, and theft)
* -EE responses
-Conventional morality is false
-Egoist could argue that the immoral things will never benefit you and therefore they just wont do it.
* -Plato and the disordered soul
-Plato not an egoist
-Theory-
-Why many philosophers reject EE * Argument from paradigm cases- standard argument against EE.
Ex: (1) If a moral theory requires you to do “x” where ”x” is a paradigm case of wrongness just because it benefits you, then that moral theory is false.(2) EE requires you to do “x” where ‘x’ is morally wrong, just because it benefits you.(3) EE is false. (I.e.: murder, rape, and theft)
* -EE responses
-Conventional morality is false
-Egoist could argue that the immoral things will never benefit you and therefore they just wont do it.
* -Plato and the disordered soul
-Plato not an egoist
-Theory-