...Roger Crisp RATIONAL EGOISM: A SELECTIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY. By Robert Shaver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii, 162. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) RATIONAL EWISM...

... philosophy, and also contains responses to critics. 1 The book is a continuation of Sterba's abiding aim to put egoism in its place, and its substantive aims are extremely ambitious. It seeks both to rebut egoism in favor of morality and to rebut political libertarianism in favor of egalitarianism, while...

... has been shown: “We have…evolved the suppression of Egoism, the necessary universality of view, which is implied in the mere form of the objective judgment ‘that an end is good’ just as it is in the judgment ‘that an action is right’.” Later he notes that the egoist can escape by denying that “his...

...—the critique that leads to his initial introduction of “spirit” and “mutual recognition”—Franco summarizes very briefly (88–89) and does not seek to test against possible responses from defenders of the ratio- nality of egoism such as Hobbes or his present-day “rational choice theory” fol- lowers...

... incomplete. In normative ethics, Irwin defends “traditional naturalism.” 3 This is a version of egoism according to which each ought to aim at his or her happiness or welfare, which is (for him or her) the only ultimate good (69, 128, 131, 269n31). This account of welfare is holistic rather than...

... the bounds of hedonism, she proposes instead to give it more depth by reflecting on the self that stands behind, and gives shape to, self-love. Papish locates Kant's most important characterization of this self in his discussion of egoism in the Anthropology . There, he describes the ego/self in terms...

... Feelings: Emotion, Addiction and Human Behavior, reviewed by Louis C. Charland 108 Robert Shaver, Rational Egoism: A Selective and Critical History, reviewed by Roger Crisp 111 Gary Gutting, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, reviewed by Thomas McCarthy 114 Rae...

... of Fontaines rejects Henry’s solution and argues in translation 6 for a conception of the common good (strongly reminiscent of Aquinas’s) that allows him to preserve Aristotle’s insight but purge it of its apparent egoism. The virtuous person who dies for his country does indeed achieve for himself a blaze...

... METHODS OF ETHICS: A DEBATE. By MARCIAW. BARON,PHILIP PETTIT,and MICHAELSLOTE. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Pp. vi, 285. In The Methods of Ethics, Sidgwick took seriously egoism, utilitarianism, and commonsense morality. Virtue ethics was treated as part of commonsense morality. Three...

... our passions. Blackburn offers a conception of both, one broadly in the spirit of Hume and Adam Smith. Blackburn emphasizes the multiplicity and variety of our passions, con- cerns, and sentiments. Simple stories about our sentiments-for example, a psychological egoism that goes with what...

... our passions. Blackburn offers a conception of both, one broadly in the spirit of Hume and Adam Smith. Blackburn emphasizes the multiplicity and variety of our passions, con- cerns, and sentiments. Simple stories about our sentiments-for example, a psychological egoism that goes with what...

... dialogues can be readily detected, none more frequent than the Phaedo. For many readers new to Epictetus the most striking feature of Stoicism that he brings to light will be his frank commitment to ethical egoism (see Disc. 1.19, 1.22, 1.27). Throughout we find a characteristic emphasis on our...

... characteristically promotes their flourishing (124). Eudaimonism also encounters the familiar egoism (or narcissism) objection: If the virtuous person is ultimately motivated by her own flourishing or excellence of character, that is, if she takes her own flourishing to be the finest good for her, then she...

... Later, Sidgwick elaborates on the demands of temporal neutrality and notes that it has broader application than its role in his own version of hedonistic egoism. Hereafter as such is to be regarded neither less nor more than Now. It is not, of course, meant, that the good of the present...

... no difference to its prescriptions (other things being equal), while it is agent-relative if it does. Utilitarianism is the standard example of an agent-neutral theory, while ethical egoism—which recommends that each agent should pursue his or her own self-interest—is a familiar example of an agent-relative one...

... those questions, consequentialism requires more than this mini- mal thesis if we are to avoid drastically revising our taxonomy. As Sinnott- Armstrong notes, this capacious conception would make some unlikely theories consequentialist: not only ethical egoism, but also such theo- ries as Bentham’s...

... two articles, “The Normativity of Instrumental Reason” and “The Myth of Egoism” are very complicated works, as Korsgaard herself notes (67). I will not try to summarize the long, thorough, nuanced, and sophisticated argumentation. On the way to their conclusions—instrumentalism is incoher- ent...

... two articles, “The Normativity of Instrumental Reason” and “The Myth of Egoism” are very complicated works, as Korsgaard herself notes (67). I will not try to summarize the long, thorough, nuanced, and sophisticated argumentation. On the way to their conclusions—instrumentalism is incoher- ent...

... two articles, “The Normativity of Instrumental Reason” and “The Myth of Egoism” are very complicated works, as Korsgaard herself notes (67). I will not try to summarize the long, thorough, nuanced, and sophisticated argumentation. On the way to their conclusions—instrumentalism is incoher- ent...

... two articles, “The Normativity of Instrumental Reason” and “The Myth of Egoism” are very complicated works, as Korsgaard herself notes (67). I will not try to summarize the long, thorough, nuanced, and sophisticated argumentation. On the way to their conclusions—instrumentalism is incoher- ent...