PHIL 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Egotism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 347
• Professor: Yoshiki Kobasigawa

Document Summary

Interests must be compounded out of desires, relative acts (hoping/wishing) Desire to go hiking -> should get that hip surgery. Morally correct act promotes the interests of the actors. One"s duty is to promote one"s personal interests. Morally right: we have the duty to perform them. Morally wrong: act that fails to fulfill our duty. Pleasure/pain in the present appear large, ones in the future appear small. Does not claim that whatever a person desires is a morally correct act (consider long-run consequences) Is compatible with the view that ethics is a personal matter.