James Rachel Psychological Egoism

James Rachel writes about ethic egoism and psychological egoism and the comparison of the two. First it is important to understand the differences’ between the two of them. Ethic Egoism is the moral theory that states we ought to act only from self-love or by a standard view of how men should act. Psychological egoism, in contrast, is a view that all men are in fact selfish and everything that they do is selfish, and the only motive used for acts is in self-interest.
Lets begin with Rachel’s two arguments when it comes to psychological egoism. First being that, anything someone does is categorized as a selfish or unselfish act, however, that doesn’t change that fact that the choice was made voluntarily. Second, Rachel argues that when someone