Greg Salmieri

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Elucidations · Episode 131: Greg Salmieri discusses egoism and altruism · 3 Jan 2021 podcast

And if so, it's an egoistic action.

And then the various

series that have been called egoism make claims about actions either that they all are egoistic or that they all ought to be egoistic or that they um are all egoistic insofar as they're generally the agent's own action as opposed to being motivated by some kind of neurosis or something.

We can give different names to these theories.

So the the theory that all actions are egoistic, that no one ever acts for any reason other than self-interest is sometimes called psychological egoism.

The theory that all someone's genuine actions, as opposed to like compulsions or nervous ticks, they have sometimes that's called egoism about reasons or rational egoism, although that term is also used in another way that we'll discuss.

And then the theory that

I'm interested in and that I endorse, and that some of the people I study are proponents of is ethical egoism.

Uh, that is the theory that

es central to what makes an action good, what makes it right, what makes it moral, is that it benefits the person taking it.

I g you could understand it that way, but I the word really gives me pause because it's not as though you don't really want to get on that train, it's just there's a reason why you want to get on that train.

Part of why I'm skeptical about

Or reticent about the word really is

You know, there's this idea you get it sort of in Plato's symposium, that you love someone or something, and then we could say why you love them.

And suppose the answer is they're beautiful.

That's the kind of answer you get in Plato's symposium in any case.

Well then what you really love is beauty, not the person.

And if you could just encounter beauty pure, uninfected by the human flesh and whatever else, as Plato says that it's got in the person, uh, you'd love it more.

And

Regardless of the details of Plato's view of beauty and that it's beauty that you love someone for, I think there's something

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