Concept
Psychological egoism
Overview
The view that true altruism in humans is impossible
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Psychological egoism
- Max Stirner
- The Ego and Its Own
- John Stuart Mill
- J. L. Mackie
- Jeremy Bentham
- Mary Midgley
- Joel Feinberg
- James Rachels
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Max Stirner
- Ancient philosophy
- Mirror neuron
- Operant conditioning
- Ad infinitum
- Joseph Butler
- Pleasure
- Thomas Nagel
- Suffering
- Natural selection
- Normative ethics
- Herbert Spencer
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sigmund Freud
- David Sloan Wilson
- Thomas Hobbes
- Infinite regress
- Empathy
- Empirical evidence
- Pierre Bayle
- Rational egoism
- Natural rights and legal rights
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.