Love Your Neighbor As Yourself: Response to Ethical Egoism PHIL-122 22 March 2013 We are often taught at an early age that when struggling to make a decision to “let our consciences be our guides”. Conscience can be defined as our adherence to moral principles‚ or our considerations of fairness and justice. The word “consideration” is used because every individual has their own standards for what they feel to be morally right versus what they feel to be morally wrong‚ however this concept
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A fallacy is incorrect reasoning in argumentation resulting in a misconception. By accident or design‚ fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor ‚ or take advantage of social relationships between people. Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical argument‚ making fallacies more difficult to diagnose. Also‚ the components of the fallacy may be spread out over separate arguments. A fallacy has a lot of forms 1 Fallacies
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Part A (a): Ethical dilemma Kate is faced with the dilemma is weather to report about the contaminated milk to the Queensland Food Safety Authority (FSA). Ethical egoism Under ethical egoism‚ Kate should report the issue to the food safety Authority. Because under the ethical egoism it is maximising the self-interest which she doesn’t want to see customers get ill and furthermore the business get bad publicity. Also being rewarded as a most honest person in the restaurant she doesn’t want to be
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| | | | Fallacy Assignment The article that I chose for my fallacy assignment is: “Arrest Everybody” by Jacob Sullivan. This article is an editorial article discussing Arizona’s immigration reform law. The article is addressing the specific law that requires police to investigate the immigration status of people they encounter during their daily police duties. Sullivan is arguing that Arizona’s new law is encouraging police to imitate or emulate other officers
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The psychological defences of abducting parents and the psychological defences contained in The Hague Abduction Convention’s Article 13b‚ as developed in this article‚ result in a dysfunctional psycho-legal marriage in need of a dissolution. But lest the focus be seen as purely governed by Convention litigation‚ non-Hague litigation poses similar dangers. For example‚ the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child‚ essentially provides the same two psychological loopholes‚ by allowing "best
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English 1C 05 June 2015 The Weakness in Fallacies Fallacies are land minds hidden beneath a flatbed of language. They appear hidden to the eye that lacks the knowledge about them. Most go by undetected and cloaked. We experience them everyday and a lot of them go through our heads because we are unaware of them. Depending on how elaborate the fallacy is‚ it can potentially sway people to a certain decision‚ either mundane or crucial. Identifying fallacies are important because you can develop the
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3/4/12 Fallacies I’ve Used I have use many fallacies on a daily basis‚ but I have noticed that the fallacies I use the most are the appeal to bandwagon‚ poisoning the well‚ and apples and oranges. I appeal to bandwagon by always using peer pressure whenever I try to convince people to do things. For example during my senior year in high school‚ the upcoming senior ditch day was coming up and I tried to convince my friends to skip the day with me. To convince them‚ I said that most seniors in our
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Argument against Egoism I shall argue that the ideas of both psychological and ethical egoism are fundamentally flawed and should not be practiced. Egoism is flawed because it ignores the fact that people have a predisposition for compassion toward others that cannot be completely expelled from their motives of action. Egoism is also flawed due to the fact that altruism cannot coexist with egoism; therefore‚ because there is altruism in the world‚ egoism cannot be practiced logically. Egoism is also flawed
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There are a few reasons as to why I do not think an ethical egoist would agree with Socrates decision to stay and be executed. For example‚ egoists don’t care about the good cause‚ Gods cause‚ the cause of mankind‚ the cause of truth‚ of freedom‚ of humanity‚ and of justice‚ which will all Socrates does care about. Egoist believes that the only concern is themselves and that there is no meaning to good or bad. Socrates viewpoint about remaining in jail and being executed is all based on the idea
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Egoism is broken down into four main groups: Psychological egoism‚ Normative egoism‚ Ethical egoism‚ and Rational egoism. Egoism in general values the desires of the individual the most‚ and this is most important to the individual only if the desires match what is in one’s own best interest. Psychological egoism is more centered upon the individual’s unconscious impulse to always behave in one’s own self-interest‚ and is more of a law than a theory because it must always hold true‚ and if it does
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