How could anything so infuriatingly nebulous possibly elucidate egoism or altruism?
This is a telling criticism only if we confuse the age-old debate about psychological egoism with the argument over evolutionary biology.
Some were genuine, but the pettybourgeois egoism of others, their refusal to engage in real struggles, irritated the master.
The perspective of rational egoism proves highly useful for criticizing oppressive commitments.
Luckily, we do not have to choose between these two dismal options, of rational egoism or commitment to an unjust form of group agency.
Importantly, these internal mechanisms are directly relevant to the egoism-altruism debate.
The traditional selfish egoism assumption of rational choice requires dilemmas to be solved by either adding some likely punishment to defection or reward to co-operation.
It encouraged ' egoism ', the ' dissolvant of each society ', and prevented public spiritedness.
