At least sometimes we ought to do what is in our own best interest. However, ethical egoism makes the radical claim that our only duty is to do what is in our own best interest. In other words, we ...

have tried to base ethics on self-interest. Their efforts, however, have not been widely accepted. While egoism may be a strong motivator of human behavior, ethics traditionally assumes that human ...

Susantha Hewa The Covid-19 pandemic, which took more than seven million human lives in its destructive sweep across all ...

The charges of relativism and egoism that are often mounted against virtue ethics are rebutted and virtues that are especially relevant to contemporary life, namely, courage, taking responsibility, ...

Scientists have shattered our self-image as principled beings, motivated by moral truths. Some wonder whether our ideals can ...

Massimo Pigliucci on game theory, rational egoism and the evolution of fairness. Is it rational to be ethical? Many philosophers have wrestled with this most fundamental of questions, attempting to ...

At its heart, living well involves being attuned to value that lies beyond the orbit of one’s own individual desires and ...

The pain, the social climbing, the lack of ethics, and the post-war, orgiastic egoism are what the work is really about. With ...

The four chapters on Aristotle address problems such as the doctrine of the mean, the status of rules, equity and the tension between altruism and egoism in Aristotelian eudaimonism. A contrast to ...

Just months before his arrest, he had been invited to speak at a Stanford tech-ethics course ... where self-interest and egoism run amok. SBF neatly fits into that model; according to his on ...

Kamura’s debut feature follows the intertwining lives of a local woman and a French artist against the backdrop of Sokcho’s ...