| What book did Max Stirner write? | "The ego and its own" |
| What is ethical egoism? | agent focused ethic based on self interest as supposed to altruism |
| What types of egoism are there? | ethical egoism and psychological egoism |
| Who developed ethical egoism? | Max Stirner |
| Who was Max Stirner? | Best known for his contribution and support of egoism and anarchism. |
| What book did Max Stirner write? | "The ego and its own" |
| What is Stirner's view on altruism? | That it does not exist |
| What are is a quote he says about ethical egoism? | "The egoist ... wants to develop only himself" |
| What is another quote used by Stirner to describe egoism? | "I the egoist have not at heart the welfare of this 'human society' I sacrifice nothing to it" |
| What are the arguments to support egoism? | non absolute, consistent with human nature, best outcome for individual in every situation. |
| What are the arguments against it? | Immoral acts, lacks objectivity and form of bigotry |
| What is psychological egoism? | This type of egoism looks at the way people behave and argues even the most altruistic things are done for your own self interest |
| What are the claims of psychological egoism? | We do act in our own self interest, motivated by our own concerns. There is no such thing as altruism. We are not free to act any other way |
| How do the claims of ethical egoism contrast to psychological egoism? | We ought to act only according to our own concerns and to further our own cause. Altruistic type acts should be avoided unless they are in our own self interest. We act wrongly when we act against our self interest |
| What type of theory does psychological egoism claim to be? | A description of reality |
| What type of theory does ethical egoism claim to be? | A normative, prescriptive theory |
| What type of interests does ethical egoism focus on? | Long term interests |
| What did Stirner claim? | We are slaves to other interests such as duty, guilt, or conscience. We are deceived into believing it is in our self interest to obey those interests |
| What did Stirner say about the ego? | The ego is a slave to obligation |
| What did Stirner say about recognising your ownness? | Freedom comes when I recognise my ownness or authority over myself |
| When is ownness realised according to Stirner? | Ownness is realised by understanding that our uniqueness gives us power to make our own decisions |
| What are union of egoists? | The idea of people cooperating to preserve their own identity and further their self interests |
