Question

There is a fundamental ambiguity at the heart of psychological egoism.

A) This ambiguity involves the question of whether We are our brothers' keepers
B) We act selfishly or in our own self-interest
C) We have a right to government support when we fall on hard times
D) All of the above

Answer 1

The correct answer is Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

The theory of psychological egoism suggests that all our actions are results of our own interest.

However the haziness prevails between two behavioral aspects. They are the activities which we perform is mainly of being selfish or to satisfy our own self-interest.

Sometimes we may get positive output for our actions. Does it mean that we have performed the action in order to get a positive outcome? Hence motives and consequences differ even though we perform an action out of self-interest. So, Psychological egoism is known to be partially true.

Answer 2

The right answer is option B “We act selfishly or in our own self-interest”

Step-by-step explanation:

Psychological egoism is a theory that explains motivation with the focus of why or for what we do the actions. It says we always act selfishly. The problem in here is define if we actually act selfishly, or we just act in our own self-interest. The first one is based on that we only do things that are in our sincere self-interest, because people are unconsciously selfish and naturally we always tend to do things that benefits us. The second one is based on our intentions, instead of asking why we do it, we should as to whom, in fact the answer will be always ourselves, acting selfishly.