Egoism Essay

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What is the value of a life? Is it how long you live, what you accomplish during your lifetime, or things you acquire? The ethics and moral reasoning behind this simple question does wealth equate to happiness? This has been asked many times and the debate from both sides has great points and emphasis, but I would like to talk about those who seem to be thrown on the back burner the needy. Now if you were to hear the word needy many different categories come to mind homeless, unemployed, sick, and the underprivileged. Each sector is different in terms of the needs and what is asked to help them: however they stand together in regards to some type of assistance to help them attain and maintain simple everyday tasks in their lives. In terms …show more content…

The is no way to justly identify it, but when it comes to the value of lie this will not give the impression that anyone feel any moral obligation except to themselves. In ethics egoism entails that the individual self is either the motivating moral force and is, or should, be the end of moral action. Egoism divides into both a positive and normative ethic. The positive ethic views egoism as a factual description of human affairs that is people are motivated by their own interests and desires. The normative ethic is that they should be so motivated. Egoism Ethical egoism is the theory that the promotion of one 's own good is in accordance with morality. In the strong version it is held that it is always moral to promote one 's own good and it is never moral not to promote it. In the weak version, it claims that whilst it is always moral to promote one 's good, it is not necessarily never moral not to do so-that is, there may be conditions in which the avoidance of personal interest may be a moral action. The needy do not have the means or in a lot of cases the chance to worry about selfishness except where it benefits their …show more content…

It focuses on the character of a person. A person’s character will tell you all the information you need to know about them. If a person is genuine then you will know that their moral stand point will be to help others because it is the right thing to do it will not be for show or to impress anyone. Also with this the virtues and character in this theory go hand in hand, also striving to reach what Aristotle called the phronesis (K, Mosser. 2014). Traditionally good characteristics equal a good person one who is virtuous, and morally generous. Lastly this is the closest to Aristotle’s golden mean wanting to have what is between too little and too much. Reaching the golden mean that all actions will be according to the harmony that is created with all qualities of a

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