Challenges to ethical egoism

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…