Comments on: Is every action secretly selfish? https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2021/11/is-every-action-secretly-selfish/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nico https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2021/11/is-every-action-secretly-selfish/#comment-42105 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:10:28 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=2504#comment-42105 Arguments 1 – 6 seem more like a critique to hedonism and utilitarianism rather than selfishness.

Here is a good opinion essay about selfishness that I liked:

https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/narcissism-and-selfishness-are-the

]]> By: Romeo Stevens https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2021/11/is-every-action-secretly-selfish/#comment-24737 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:01:28 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=2504#comment-24737 It’s fallacy of one cause plus motte and bailey. If you try to pin them on specifics of a selfish explanation being more predictive than other explanations they will retreat to a tautological claim that those ‘other reasons’ that are not commonly understood to be selfish have some internal representation of benefit that makes the person feel good. This refers to an unfalsifiable claim about internal states.

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