Greg Salmieri

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

wrong about this way of thinking of something.

You love a concrete person, right, or a concrete thing, and we can give some account of what it is about it that makes you love them, but that doesn't mean that

you then love only that thing that's specified in the account, not the concrete that you love on account of those features specified in the account.

And

I think likewise if you value, say, getting on a concrete train and there's a a reason for that.

It's not necessarily that what you value is that reason rather than the train.

Now in some cases, as with this train case, it's plausible to say that because another train's coming along in just a moment and if you miss this train and get on the next one, you won't be or feel yourself to be any worse off.

And so we might think you're indifferent to which train it is.

But if we take a more significant value like you love a certain job

or a certain person, or a certain house that you live in, or a certain artwork, I think there too we can specify why you love it, why it's good for you.

And the account that we would give in those kinds of cases would really be explanatory of its value to you.

What contribution does it make to your life in a way that

wouldn't make it sort of fungible and we'd say that really what you value is these other things we're referencing in the account.

Yeah, I think that's right.

The action was egoistic in that case.

But but we're gonna have to think a lot about what it really means to benefit yourself, what's good for you.

And as we'll see, there are different views of the answer to this question.

Uh so the egoism is not really one theory so much as it is a um even ethical egoism, a description of a type of moral theory.

And likewise for psychological egoism uh or any of the other kinds of egoism.

They're descriptions of a type of theory that explains something in terms of self interest, but then there's a question of well, what is self interest anyway?

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