Assertion: egoism | /r/HasProperty | subjective
Facets:
value: unlike other theories
type: OTHER
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
value: purely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Egoism is subjective, meaning that its implications and conclusions change from person to person and nothing is objectively ethical.
text: Stirner's Egoism is purely descriptive, and is an attempt to surpass the very idea of 'ought' itself.
text: Egoism can be a descriptive or a normative position.
text: Hence this self-interest is necessarily subjective, allowing both selfish and altruistic normative claims to be included.
text: -Psychological Egoism is a descriptive theory.
text: Unlike other theories that prescribe how we ought to behave, egoism is a descriptive principle (Pollock, 2007) that does not tell us necessarily how we ought to behave, but rather why we behave the way we do.
text: One, this egoism is considered as a descriptive theory that resulted from the observations made on human behavior.