Philosophy 2074F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Normal-Form Game, Egotism
11 Dec 2018
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Chapter 11 - business & the environment ii. Mike and nancy: two people, who are both egoists, move to muskoka and both want to build a cottage by a lake. Us, china agreement: made a treaty to lower greenhouse gas emissions, an agreement was reached, but they both still have a choice to honour their agreement or cheat. If they cheat, both add billion to gnp, if they both cooperate, they each add billion: narrow self-interest says to cheat, actual self-interest says to both cooperate. The paradox of egoism: there are some desirable consequences that are not available to people who always try to maximize their own narrow self-interest, egoism can be self-defeating. John rawls: egalitarian view says that there is a fundamental equality between persons (past, present, future) False: the approach to ethics which states that the interplay between particular judgements and general principles is what drives moral reasoning is called reflective equilibrium.
