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Egoism

     
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Psychological Egoism is the thesis that we always act from selfish motives. It holds that all desires are egoistic desires, or else derived egoistic desires. It is a descriptive thesis (i.e. a thesis about how things are, not about how they ought to be). It must be distinguished from the normative claim that we ought only to have egoistic desires (Ethical Egoism).


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Psychology
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Tertiary / Higher Education
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Readings

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MIT

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CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-SA

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