Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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Well it
The word's been used for a number of related theories.
I I think the kind of central idea to start with to get a a grip on all of them and how they're related is the idea of an actions being egoistic.
And an action is egoistic if it's ultimately motivated by the agent's own well being.
The agent is the person taking the action.
That's how we use that term in ethics.
So there's a person taking an action and he has a goal that he's trying to achieve by taking the action.
And if that goal is ultimately to benefit himself,
The action's egoistic, as opposed to the goal being to
To help someone else to um
obey some kind of a duty or
Or just him not having much of a goal at all.
And what we're talking about here is the ultimate goal of an action.
So, you know, you might do one thing for the sake of something else and that second thing for the sake of a third, but this chain, you know, comes to an end somewhere.
And so we're talking about the ultimate goal.
So you might well be acting to help someone else, but because you think that doing this will somehow enrich your life.
Or you might be acting to help yourself but only because you think it'll fit you to be a better servant of God or a better servant of other people or help you to better do your duty.
Whether an action is egoistic or non egoistic is a matter of what the ultimate goal is.
In the final analysis, why are you doing this?
And is it to benefit yourself?
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