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Is being selfish immoral?
Selfishness becomes immoral when the actions we take to meet our own needs harm ourselves or others. Moral selfishness is meeting our needs without deceiving others about our real intentions or doing harm to others or ignoring the legitimate needs of others in community.
What does hedonistic mean in English?
devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
Why is altruism evil?
Altruism, no matter how well meaning and voluntary, is evil because it leads to and/or excuses the abandonment of selfish, rational values. Benevolence is not altruism because it is does not involve self sacrifice.
What does Ayn Rand mean when she says in the realm of cognition the special sciences are the trees but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible?
In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible. Philosophy is the science that studies the fundamental aspects of the nature of existence. The task of philosophy is to provide man with a comprehensive view of life.
Is selfishness a virtue?
Since a concern with one’s own interests is a character trait that, when translated into action, enables one to achieve and guard one’s own well-being, it follows that selfishness is a virtue. Many people use the adjective “selfish” to describe regard for one’s own welfare to the disregard of the well-being of others.
What does Epicurus say about virtue?
However, the virtues for Epicurus are all purely instrumental goods–that is, they are valuable solely for the sake of the happiness that they can bring oneself, not for their own sake. Epicurus says that all of the virtues are ultimately forms of prudence, of calculating what is in one’s own best interest.
What philosophy did Ayn Rand believe in?
Rand described Objectivism as “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute”.