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Everyday Selfishness...
Human beings are moved ultimately by self interested desires.
All voluntary human action is motivated by the desire to experience pleasure or avoid pain.
People usually try to conceal their determining motives for their actions because that concealment is what is in their own interest.
Ethical hedonism argues that our ultimate moral obligation is to maximize our own happiness. Is this selfish?
People choose to help others ultimately because of the personal rewards they feel when doing so.
We are not born with a superego- it is developed.
We all do our best to escape unhappiness under the pleasure principle.
- Believer in psychological egoism
- Everything humans do is motivated by self interest
- Cake Theory
We all want to be successful.
It is selfish to want more than you are given.
To be selfish is to have concern for only yourself and not the feelings or needs of others.
Harry Browne is a politician and influenced philosophy with his views on morality.
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher in the 1600s, who is known for his work in political philosophy.
We allow ourselves the pleasures of aesthetics, literature and art all for our own comfort.
Principle of rational egoism: An action is rational if and only it maximizes one's self interest.
Desmond Morris is a zoologist who studied animal behaviour and human rights
"Every man has a wild beast within him." - Frederick the Great
"Of all created creatures man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one that possesses malice. Also he is the only creature that has a nasty mind." - Mark Twain
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals."
- Mark Twain