PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Egotism, Unit, Subjectivism
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Week 5 - lecture #10: thursday february 04, 2016. Unit 2: challenges to morality - psychological egoism & moral. Today: continue with feinberg, psychological egoism , start shafer-landau, whatever happened to good and evil . The doctrine that the only thing anyone is capable of desiring or pursuing ultimately (as an end in itself) is his own self-interest. (feinberg, p. 80) If that"s right, psychological egoism poses a challenge to morality: If it is humanly impossible to do anything other than what you think is in your own self-interest, then it cannot be that you ought to do anything else. Feinberg discusses four popular arguments for psychological egoism. You get pleasure from it, so it"s selfish. P1) whenever one gets what one is trying to achieve in acting, one feels pleasure: whenever one acts, one is really pursuing one"s own pleasure. No; getting what one is trying to achieve is no guarantee that one will experience pleasure. (p.
