Aristotle's ethical theory is often seen as instructing agents in the prudent pursuit of their own well-being, and therefore labeled egoistic.
The first criterion, (2a), makes intuitionism and utilitarianism use different methods and makes egoistic and universalistic hedonism use the same method.
Her questions aim to escape the egoistic instinct of the creative self and to offer the power to speak, rhetorically, to the other.
But, evidently, the nonpartisan may also use his relatively superior position for purely egoistic interests.
First, the linkage between trade and environment makes sense when the country addressing the environmental issues is egoistic.
In any case, these forms of liberalism would be too egoistic and individual-centered to most champions of solidarity.
The second criterion, (2b), makes egoistic and universalistic hedonism use different methods, since the egoist considers only his own pleasure.
Then egoistic reasons would be desire-based, unlike the reasons for categorical 'oughts' as invoked by utilitarians and intuitionists.
