Business and Society: Principle of Rational Egoism

The economic disaster in the 1930s revolutionized society's perception of the free market. Social concerns caused government intervention aimed at solving the irritated problem of the Great Depression. These services (eg, education, medical treatment, transportation, environmental protection) are great benefits for society as a whole if it is designed and provided efficiently. The government has developed social insurance and aid system to alleviate future risk from the beginning of the 20th century, but it has been synchronized with the development of enterprise capitalism.

In the work of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, the various theories of these social improvements are extracted from the Russian audience. (1863) later imitated a philosophy called "rational self-interest". Reasonable self-interest depends on the idea that mankind ultimately chooses to live in a fair and equal society under the guidance of enlightened self-interests. This idea wants to further promote the development of the Russian society by becoming an opportunity to grow the young Russians after the emperor Alexander II's "great reform" (including the abolition of serfdom and the establishment of local autonomy) I will. Through the revolution, I think that they begin with reinventing themselves and interrogating their desires. On the other hand, Dostoevsky could not tolerate the scientific analysis of desire and thought that people did not understand why they wanted what they wanted.

Parfit 1984 pts reactivated discussions on reasonable self-interests. II - III. Parfit has two main arguments against reasonable self-interests. Both are focused on the reasonable egoist attitude towards the future. A reasonable egoist thinks that the timing of the arrival of a certain good is not important in itself, so you should make a little sacrifice, for example for future benefits. Now income. First of all, people can challenge reasonable self-interest not only by tool theory but also by reasonable "now goal" theory. According to the current goal theory, I have a good reason to do my best to satisfy my current desire. Even if all these desires are self-concerned, the current goal theory does not necessarily agree with rational self-interest. I'd like to get a good pension in the future, but I do not want to offer a good pension to myself in the future, I know that I have another self-desire I will.