Ethical egoism
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Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest.
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See also
- Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand
- Aristotle
- Ayn Rand
- Baruch Spinoza
- Epicurus
- Friedrich Nietszche
- Max Stirner
- Thomas Hobbes
- Altruism (ethics)
- Behavioral economics
- Cārvāka, an egoistic Indian philosophy
- Ethics
- Hedonism
- Helping behavior
- Individualism
- Individualist anarchism
- Objectivism
- Profit motive
- Psychological egoism
- Rational egoism
- Rational expectations
- Self-interest
- Yangism, an egoistic Chinese philosophy
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