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title: "SU-PHIL2 APR102025"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhsu_phil2_apr102025/
date: 2025-04-10
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veneer theory People are moral out of fear of sanction/punishment. &ldquo;Really&rdquo; are deep-down self-interested (egoistic) creatures.
evolution by natural selection &ldquo;selects&rdquo; for selfishness we are products of national selection therefore, we must be egoists (i.e., selfish) subscript gambit subscript gambit is the notion to use multiple different terms/subscripts to define a possibly contested term in order to remove the contention.
altruism altruism1: A behaves towards B in a way that decreases its own reproductive success and increases the reproductive success of B altruism2: A acts towards B in a way that detracts from the fulfillment of its own current desired to promote the perceived desires of B altruism3: A acts towards B in ways motivated to promote B&rsquo;s interests egoism egoism1: person puts their own needs first doest&rsquo; consider others in a way that&rsquo;s unacceptable egoism2 every action is explained by the fact that we are motivated by ultimately self-interested desires every action is the result of an agent acting on their own strongest desire question: are there good reasons that we should be egoists?
agency agency1: &ldquo;rational agency&rdquo; the agency to believe world view agency2: &ldquo;animal/affective agency&rdquo;, wehre intentions and ochices are mechancial product of th estrongest desire in the moment agency3: &ldquo;functionally describable movement&rdquo;
