Assertion: egoism | /r/HasProperty | false
Facets:
value: in other words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: So, even if the premises are true, it does not follow that egoism is false.
text: Therefore, people ought to act in such a way as to maximize their own self-interest; in other words, egoism is true.
text: Part Two looks at attempts to prove that Egoism is false, and shows that even modest arguments against Egoist appear to fail.
text: Part Two looks at attempts to prove that Egoism is false, and shows that even modest arguments against Egoist appear to fail.
text: Many believe that, since actions like these are clearly wrong, this shows that egoism is false and the argument at 2.3 fails: egoism does not best explain our moral obligations even if we sometimes must do what’s best for ourselves.
text: So here the charge is that this response assumes that egoism is false in arguing that egoism is false.
text: So here the charge is that this response assumes that egoism is false in arguing that egoism is false.
text: if egoism is true then you're morally required to do shitty things.
text: First, in response to the claim that egoism is desirable because everyone adopting it would be good for all, we should notice that this isn’t an egoistic argument since the motivating concern is everyone’s interests, which aren’t important if egoism is true: only you should matter to you.
text: But we aren’t “assuming” anything: we just have better reason to believe that assault for personal gain is wrong than that egoism is true.
text: If egoism were true then they could easily be ignored or compromised by the moral agent - something that would be considered morally bad.