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    1. The document discusses and critiques the view of psychological egoism, which claims that all human desires are motivated by self-interest and the desire for one's own pleasure or satisfaction. 2. It distinguishes between being motivated by one's own desires versus being motivated by a desire for one's own satisfaction. It also notes that satisfying a desire does not necessarily result in pleasure. 3. The document considers different views of what pleasure is and argues that we often want things directly rather than just as a means to pleasure. It concludes that the best way to characterize egoistic desires is negatively, as those that involve insufficient attention to the needs of others.

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    1. The document discusses and critiques the view of psychological egoism, which claims that all human desires are motivated by self-interest and the desire for one's own pleasure or satisfaction. 2. It distinguishes between being motivated by one's own desires versus being motivated by a desire for one's own satisfaction. It also notes that satisfying a desire does not necessarily result in pleasure. 3. The document considers different views of what pleasure is and argues that we often want things directly rather than just as a means to pleasure. It concludes that the best way to characterize egoistic desires is negatively, as those that involve insufficient attention to the needs of others.

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    Egoism

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    DeepakDhariwal
    1. The document discusses and critiques the view of psychological egoism, which claims that all human desires are motivated by self-interest and the desire for one's own pleasure or satisfaction. 2. It distinguishes between being motivated by one's own desires versus being motivated by a desire for one's own satisfaction. It also notes that satisfying a desire does not necessarily result in pleasure. 3. The document considers different views of what pleasure is and argues that we often want things directly rather than just as a means to pleasure. It concludes that the best way to characterize egoistic desires is negatively, as those that involve insufficient attention to the needs of others.

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    EGOISM
    All desires are egoistic desires or else derived egoistic desires.
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    Premise: Everything I do is motivated by my desire to do that thing.


    Conclusion: Therefore, everything I do has a selfish motivation.
    There is a sense of desire on which the premise is false (we sometimes do things not
    because we want to, but because we feel we ought to). Whenever we do something there is
    some concern that leads us to do it.

    ]
    Distinguish:
    1. Being motivated by ones own desires.
    2. Being motivated by a desire for ones own satisfaction.
    It is not even obvious that one will be motivated by all of one own desires
    There is a difference between satisfying a desire and getting pleasure from the satisfaction
    of a desire.
    So, psychological egoism becomes the thesis that every desire is the desire for ones own pleasure or
    it is derived from such a desire.
    What should we pleasure to be? If we just take it to be the satisfaction of our desires, then we seem
    to be in an ungrounded loop when we say that our only basic desire is the satisfaction of our desires.
    Alternatively, we might take pleasure to be a certain sensation.
    Dont we often want things (food, etc.) directly and not just as ways of getting ourselves
    pleasurable sensation.
    In general, (i) trying to get pleasure very often doesnt get it; (ii) pleasure is not always a separate
    state from the activity that one finds pleasurable: playing chess for pleasure / playing chess and
    simultaneously having pleasurable sensations.
    The weaker point: if I do what I want, I will get pleasure from it. But, with every desire that is
    satisfied I get a little older, but that doesnt make it a desire to get older.
    Another suggestion that, egoistic desires are those that begin I want that I . These are I-desires.
    Problems with I-desires criterion:
    (i)
    (ii)

    Some desires might be agent relative without being egoistic (I want my child to do
    well).
    Moral motivations (I want that I dont tell lies).

    The best way is to characterize egoistic desires negatively: they are those that involve insufficient
    attention to the needs of others.

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