Challenges to ethical egoism

Destruction of community ethos

• Ethical egoism could 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 because this causes conflict between the individual's uniqueness and an obligation to serve the law - 'Whilst individuals have no duty to overthrow the state, Stirner does think that the…