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Making Choices: A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions …
www.brown.edubalance of good over harm. Ethical environmental action, then, is the one that produces the greatest good and does the least harm for all who are affected—government, corporations, the community, and the environment. The Egoistic Approach One variation of the utilitarian approach is known as ethical egoism, or the ethics of self- interest.
UTILITARIANISM
www.utilitarianism.comethical egoism without cither confusion or else a sort of pragmatic inconsistency. Secondly, some widespread ethical systems depend partly on metaphysical premisses, and can therefore be undermined by philosophical criticism of these metaphysical bases. I …
“Utilitarianism,” by John Stuart Mill - Lander University
philosophy.lander.eduEthical egoism is the normative or pre-scriptive doctrine that each individual should seek as an end only that individual’s own welfare. The first doctrine is a description theory of how persons behave; the second is a prescriptive principle of how persons ought to behave. Eds.
Ethical Egoism - University of Colorado Boulder
rintintin.colorado.eduEthical Egoism: The morally right action is the one that best promotes the agent’s own interests (where “agent” refers to the individual performing the action) Before we can understand this view, though, we will need to discuss another: psychological egoism. Let’s take an …