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In 2.2, I distinguished between Strong and Weak Egoism, saying that an egoistic principle is strong ‘if it prescribes to all those to whom it is directed that they ought always, all things considered, to act in a certain egoistically specified way; otherwise it is weak’. In the preceding chapter I have attempted to assess principles of Strong Egoism. In this chapter I turn to principles of Weak Egoism.
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Similar remarks are made by G.E. Moore in Ethics, p. 119, and by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice, p. 124.
The same criticism is given by Richmond Campbell in Self-Love and Self-Respect, p. 120 f.
See David Lyons, op. cit., Ch. 4.
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Österberg, J. (1988). Weak Forms of Egoism. In: Self and Others. Synthese Library, vol 196. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2879-4_9
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