Concept
Ethical egoism
Overview
ethical position that moral agents should act in their own self-interest
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Ethical egoism
- Joseph Butler
- Tibor Machan
- P. F. Strawson
- Ayn Rand
- Martha Nussbaum
- Yang Zhu
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
- Richard Cumberland (philosopher)
- James Rachels
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Moral agency
- Moral nihilism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Max Stirner
- Harry Binswanger
- Anarchism
- Princeton University Press
- Polis
- Hedonism
- The Ego and Its Own
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualist anarchism
- Individualism
- Karl Marx
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Anarchist communism
- Tibor Machan
- Nathaniel Branden
- Atlas Shrugged
- Eudaimonia
- Stoicism
Opposing perspectives
- Altruism
- Impartiality
- Philosophy of self
- Utilitarianism
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Consequentialism
- Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
- Philosophy of desire
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Harry Binswanger
- Impartiality
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Leonard Peikoff
- Murray Rothbard
- Nathaniel Branden
- Philosophy of self
- Rational egoism
- Self-interest
- The Ego and Its Own
- Tibor Machan
- After Virtue
- David Gauthier
- Raoul Vaneigem
- Ressentiment
- David Kelley (philosopher)
- Envy
- Future self
- The Virtue of Selfishness
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
- Allan Gotthelf
- Andrew Bernstein (philosopher)
- Douglas B. Rasmussen