Exploring Ethical Egoism’s Foundations

Exploring Ethical Egoism’s Foundations

Ethical Egoism from Psychological Egoism
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Egoism is the theory that self interest should be or is the goal of everybody’s actions. It has two forms: descriptive and normative (Moseley, n.d.). The descriptive form is known as psychological egoism. The normative form is known as ethical egoism. These two forms are closely connected.

Psychological egoism is simply the observation that human beings often, or even always, act with purely selfish motives. Psychological egoism is not a philosophy, but a thesis or empirical claim about human nature. It serves as a foundation for some systems of ethical philosophy. There are two different forms of psychological egoism. The strong form argues that people always and inevitably…