Challenges to ethical egoism
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- Created on: 27-03-18 11:15
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Destruction of community ethos
- Ethical egoism can destroy a community ethos in promoting the will of the individual over the will of the people
- The state and laws are there for the benefit of the majority and as a guard against exploitation
- Any state or system is illegitimate for Stirner’s egoism since this causes conflict between the individual’s uniqueness and an obligation to serve the law
- The demands of the state are not binding on the individual but they do not have to oppose or eliminate the state system - ‘Whilst individuals have…
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