rational egoism

Sidgwick found it difficult to find any persuasive reason for preferring rational egoism over utilitarianism.

That is why Daleiden says that society should aim for its members to aspire to more than egoistic behavior, or even rational egoism.

Sidgwick considers three such procedures, namely, rational egoism, dogmatic intuitionism, and utilitarianism.

In ethics, Rand argued for rational egoism (rational self-interest), as the guiding moral principle.

It is, however, related to several other normative forms of egoism, such as ethical egoism and rational egoism.

Her book The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) explains the concept of rational egoism in depth.

Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest.

This dialectic between rational egoism, and religious doctrine is the butt of many cartoon strips by Touka Neyestani.

Rational Egoism: A Selective and Critical History.

Rational egoism is the view that rationality consists in acting in one's self-interest (without specifying how this affects one's moral obligations).

Baruch Spinoza: Set forth the first analysis of rational egoism, in which the rational interest of self is conformance with pure reason.

Rational egoism is discussed by the nineteenth-century English philosopher Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics.

Two objections to rational egoism are given by the English philosopher Derek Parfit, who discusses the theory at length in Reasons and Persons.

The author Ayn Rand also discusses a theory that she called 'Rational egoism' (or more specifically: 'Rational self-interest').

In ethical philosophy, rational egoism (also called rational selfishness or egotism) is the principle that an action is rational if and only if it maximizes one's self-interest.

He thus attacked a peculiar Russian blend of French utopian socialism and Benthamite utilitarianism, which had led to what revolutionaries, such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky, called "rational egoism".

Although utilitarianism can be provided with a rational basis and reconciled with the morality of common sense, rational egoism appears to be an equally plausible doctrine regarding what we have most reason to do.

According to amoralism, there is nothing wrong with egoism, but there is also nothing ethical about it; one can adopt rational egoism and drop morality as a superfluous attribute of the egoism.

While psychological egoism is about motivation and ethical egoism is about morality, rational egoism is a view about rationality (where rationality may or may not be tied to morality).

Thus, her view is a conjunction of both rational egoism (in the standard sense) and ethical egoism, because according to Objectivist philosophy, egoism cannot be properly justified without an epistemology based on reason:

As an Objectivist, Brook promotes the philosophical principles advocated by Ayn Rand, in particular her philosophy of "enlightened," or rational selfishness as a moral virtue (a position also known as rational egoism).

Rational egoism is the view that, if rational, "an agent regards quantity of consequent pleasure and pain to himself alone important in choosing between alternatives of action; and seeks always the greatest attainable surplus of pleasure over pain".

A remarkable illustration of the explanatory convenience of egoism is the concept of the 'selfish gene', through which the rational egoism which is so difficult to find in the hopelessly illogical world of men is finally tracked down in our ultimate genetic constituents.