{"id":903,"date":"2025-03-14T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/?post_type=part&#038;p=903"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:43:02","slug":"chapter-7-ethical-egoism","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/part\/chapter-7-ethical-egoism\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 7:\u00a0Ethical Egoism","rendered":"Chapter 7:\u00a0Ethical Egoism"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community, it becomes a destructive vice. -- Erwin Schrodinger<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. -- John Buchanan Robinson<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. -- Ayn Rand<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Our first <strong>objective<\/strong> ethical theory is a form of consequentialism, i.e. it considers the rightness or the wrongness of a moral choice to be dependent upon the consequences or outcomes of the decision. In the case of Ethical Egoism, the concern is for consequences to the person making the decision, \u201cwhat is in it for me?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI\"><strong>Why Are We Selfish <\/strong><strong>And<\/strong><strong> How To Stop<\/strong><\/a><strong> (6:20)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI[\/embed]\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">If you are experiencing issues viewing the video above, please use this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI<\/a>.<\/p>","rendered":"<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community, it becomes a destructive vice. &#8212; Erwin Schrodinger<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. &#8212; John Buchanan Robinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. &#8212; Ayn Rand<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. &#8212; Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Our first <strong>objective<\/strong> ethical theory is a form of consequentialism, i.e. it considers the rightness or the wrongness of a moral choice to be dependent upon the consequences or outcomes of the decision. In the case of Ethical Egoism, the concern is for consequences to the person making the decision, \u201cwhat is in it for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI\"><strong>Why Are We Selfish <\/strong><strong>And<\/strong><strong> How To Stop<\/strong><\/a><strong> (6:20)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Why Are We Selfish And How To Stop\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C1iE_JhIlbI?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">If you are experiencing issues viewing the video above, please use this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1iE_JhIlbI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-903","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/903\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}