Back to PHl402 Table of ContentMORALIZED ETHICS AND IMMORALIZED ETHICSMoralized EthicsAction for the sake of other people's interestsRecognition of the obligation to other people1. To promote the greater social good2. To direct individuals to adjust and modify their personal desires3. To urge people to do their duty and not to be selfishPsychological AltruismEthical AltruismJoseph Butler1. Two distinctions2. Three principles3. Perfect harmony with each otherImmoralized Ethics: EgoismThesis that people act for their interests or the fundamental principle of morality is to do whatever is in one's own best interests. By promoting selfishness it seems to recommend as the morality right thing to do precisely what we normally regard as immoral.1. To encourage people to be selfish as the morally right thing to do2. Not to provide universal moral principles3. Not to specify objectively valid standard of conduct4. Not to offer as the highest order of moral principle5. To cause problems as a moral principlePsychological EgoismEthical EgoismHobbes?. " Immoral, irreligious, and inhuman "2. " Selfishness " as a law of nature3. " Serving others by selfish motivation "Nietzsche1. Rejection of Kantian Christian conception of morality2. " Master and slave morality "3. Elitist morality4. Strongness and weakness as central categories5. Natural superiority ﹕uperman and survival of the fittest┅6. Moral principles defined by superman7. Duty as wholly inadequate
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