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Many objections to Ethical Egoism pertain to alleged difficulties of subscribing to this principle. I shall call such objections pragmatic objections. They will be discussed in this and the next three sections. In the remaining two sections of this chapter, some objections relating to Egoism’s conceptions of self and society will be considered. I shall start with an objection made by D. Goldstick in ‘Refutation of “Ethical Egoism”’.
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This objection is made by William Frankena in Ethics, Ch. 1, and by C.H. Whiteley in ‘Morality and Egoism’.
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Österberg, J. (1988). Pragmatic and Other Objections. In: Self and Others. Synthese Library, vol 196. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2879-4_7
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