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192:, the pleasure principle emanating from psychological hedonism became aligned with the Eros, which drives a person to satiate sexual and reproductive desires. Alternatively, Thanatos seeks the cessation of pain through death and the end of the pursuit of pleasure: thus, hedonism rules Thanatos, but it centers on the complete avoidance of pain rather than psychological hedonist function which pursues pleasure and avoids pain. Therefore, Freud believed in qualitatively different hedonisms where the total avoidance of pain hedonism and the achievement of the greatest net pleasure hedonism are separate and associated with distinct functions and drives of the human psyche. Although Eros and Thanatos are ruled by qualitatively different types of hedonism, Eros remains under the rule of Jeremy Bentham's 163:, a psychological egoist, argued that all animals primarily seek to survive and protect their lineage. Essentially, the need for the individual and for the individual's immediate family to live supersedes the others' need to live. All species attempt to maximize their own chances of survival and, therefore, well-being. Spencer asserted the best adapted creatures will have their pleasure levels outweigh their pain levels in their environments. Thus, pleasure meant an animal was fulfilling its egoist goal of self survival, and pleasure would always be pursued because species constantly strive for survival. 366:: "If a person willingly performs an act, that means he derives personal enjoyment from it; therefore, people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment." In particular, seemingly altruistic acts must be performed because people derive enjoyment from them and are therefore, in reality, egoistic. This statement is circular because its conclusion is identical to its hypothesis: it assumes that people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment, and concludes that people only perform acts that give them personal enjoyment. This objection was tendered by 281:
to save a person who is drowning in the water. In such cases, according to Nietzsche, there comes into play unconscious fears regarding our own safety. The suffering of another person is felt as a threat to our own happiness and sense of safety, because it reveals our own vulnerability to misfortunes, and thus, by relieving it, one could also ameliorate those personal sentiments. Essentially, proponents argue that altruism is rooted in self-interest whereas opponents claim altruism occurs for altruism's sake or is caused by a non-selfish reason.
311:"No one deserves thanks from another about something he has done for him or goodness he has done, he is either willing to get a reward from God, therefore he wanted to serve himself, or he wanted to get a reward from people, therefore, he has done that to get profit for himself, or to be mentioned and praised by people, therefore, to it is also for himself, or due to his mercy and tenderheartedness, so he has simply done that goodness to pacify these feelings and treat himself." 465:. Specifically, they focus on the human behavior of parental care. To set up their argument, they propose two potential psychological mechanisms for this. The hedonistic mechanism is based on a parent's ultimate desire for pleasure or the avoidance of pain and a belief that caring for its offspring will be instrumental to that. The altruistic mechanism is based on an altruistic ultimate desire to care for its offspring. 349:
neurological perspective, scientists argue that when a human empathizes with another, the brain operates as if the human is actually participating in the actions of the other person. Thus, when performing altruistic actions motivated by empathy, humans experience someone else's pleasure of being helped. Therefore, in performing acts of altruism, people act in their own self-interest even at a neurological level.
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selfish reasons even when cost of the altruistic action is far outweighed by the reward of acting selfishly because altruism is performed to fulfill the desire of a person to act altruistically. Other critics argue that it is false either because it is an over-simplified interpretation of behavior or that there exists empirical evidence of altruistic behaviour. Recently, some have argued that
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incorporated into the fundamental principles and experimental designs of behaviorism, behaviorism itself explains and interprets only observable behavior and therefore does not theorize about the ultimate cause of human behavior. Thus, behaviorism uses but does not strictly support psychological hedonism over other understandings of the ultimate drive of human behavior.
833:(The book in Arabic). The quote in Arabic "ู„ุง ูŠุณุชุญู‚ ุฃุญุฏ ู…ู† ุฃุญุฏ ุดูƒุฑุง ุนู„ู‰ ุดูŠุก ูุนู„ู‡ ุจู‡ ุฃูˆ ุฎูŠุฑ ุฃุณุฏุงู‡ ุฅู„ูŠู‡ ู„ุฃู†ู‡ ู„ุง ูŠุฎู„ูˆ ุฃู† ูŠูƒูˆู† ูุนู„ ุฐู„ูƒ ุทู„ุจุง ู„ู„ุซูˆุงุจ ู…ู† ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุชุนุงู„ู‰ ูุฅู†ู…ุง ุฅู„ู‰ ู†ูุณู‡ ู‚ุตุฏ ุฃูˆ ูŠูƒูˆู† ูุนู„ู‡ ู„ู„ู…ูƒุงูุฃุฉ ูุฅู†ู‡ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฑุจุญ ุฐุงู‡ุจ ุฃูˆ ูŠูƒูˆู† ูุนู„ู‡ ู„ู„ุฐูƒุฑ ูˆุงู„ุซู†ุงุก ูููŠ ุญุธู‡ ุณุนูŠ ูˆููŠ ุญุจู„ู‡ ุญุทุจ ุฃูˆ ูุนู„ู‡ ุฑุญู…ุฉ ู„ู‡ ูˆุฑู‚ุฉ ูˆุถุนุช ููŠ ู‚ู„ุจู‡ ูุฅู†ู…ุง ุณูƒู† ุจุชู„ูƒ ุงู„ุนุทูŠุฉ ุนู„ุชู‡ ูˆุฏุงูˆู‰ ุจู‡ุง ู…ู† ุฏุงุฆู‡" 512:
often refers to our sensual desires or appetites, or to our being attracted to something, by finding the thought of it appealing. I shall use โ€˜desireโ€™ in a wider sense, which refers to any state of being motivated, or of wanting something to happen and being to some degree disposed to make it happen,
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Psychological egoism is controversial. Proponents cite evidence from introspection: reflection on one's own actions may reveal their motives and intended results to be based on self-interest. Psychological hedonists have found through numerous observations of natural human behavior that behavior can
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in terms of psychological hedonism. According to the "merge with others hypothesis", empathy increases the more an individual feels like they are one with another person, and decreases accordingly. Therefore, altruistic actions emanating from empathy, and empathy itself, are caused by making others'
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Psychological egoists, however, respond that helping others in such ways is ultimately motivated by some form of self-interest, such as non-sensory satisfaction, the expectation of reciprocation, the desire to gain respect or reputation, or by the expectation of a reward in a putative afterlife. The
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David Hume once wrote, "What interest can a fond mother have in view, who loses her health by assiduous attendance on her sick child, and afterwards languishes and dies of grief, when freed, by its death , from the slavery of that attendance?". It seems incorrect to describe such a mother's goal as
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to not limit the fitness of the organism. Sober and Wilson argue that there is neither reason to suppose that an altruistic mechanism should be any less available than a hedonistic one nor reason to suppose that the content of thoughts and desires (hedonistic vs. altruistic) should impact energetic
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that in such cases compassionate impulses arise out of the projection of our identity unto the object of our feeling. He gives some hypothetical examples as illustrations to his thesis: that of a person, feeling horrified after witnessing a personal feud, coughing blood, or that of the impulse felt
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Opponents have argued that psychological egoism is not more parsimonious than other theories. For example, a theory that claims altruism occurs for the sake of altruism explains altruism with less complexity than the egoistic approach. The psychological egoist asserts humans act altruistically for
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According to psychological hedonism, the ultimate egoistic motive is to gain good feelings of pleasure and avoid bad feelings of pain. Other, less restricted forms of psychological egoism may allow the ultimate goal of a person to include such things as avoiding punishments from oneself or others
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asserted, like Epicurus, that human behavior is governed by a need to increase pleasure and decrease pain. Bentham explicitly described what types and qualities of pain and pleasure exist, and how human motives are singularly explained using psychological hedonism. Bentham attempted to quantify
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For the hedonistic mechanism to produce the behavior of caring for offspring, the parent must believe that the caring behavior will produce pleasure or avoidance of pain for the parent. Sober and Wilson argue that the belief also must be true and constantly reinforced, or it would not be likely
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states that behaviors associated with pleasantness will be learned and those associated with pain will be extinguished. Often, behaviorist experiments using humans and animals are built around the assumption that subjects will pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Although psychological hedonism is
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Immediate gratification can be sacrificed for a chance of greater, future pleasure. Further, humans are not motivated to strictly avoid pain and only pursue pleasure, but, instead, humans will endure pain to achieve the greatest net pleasure. Accordingly, all actions are tools for increasing
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to humans experiencing empathy. Mirror neurons are activated both when a human (or animal) performs an action and when they observe another human (or animal) perform the same action. Researchers have found that the more these mirror neurons fire the more human subjects report empathy. From a
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desires. Even though it is true that every human being seeks their own satisfaction, this sometimes may only be achieved via the well-being of their neighbor. An example of this situation could be phoning for an ambulance when a car accident has happened. In this case, the caller desires the
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argued the theory of human behavior being motivated by pleasure alone is evidenced from infancy to adulthood. Humanity performs altruistic, honorable, and virtuous acts not for the sake of another or because of a moral code but rather to increase the well-being of the self.
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which adds or removes pleasure and pain to manipulate behavior. Using pleasure and pain to control behavior means behaviorists assumed the principles of psychological hedonism could be applied to predicting human behavior. For example,
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experiments have provided evidence for this theory: as humans increase our oneness with others, our empathy increases, and as empathy increases, so too does our inclination to act altruistically. Neuropsychological studies have linked
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enough to persist. If the belief fails then the behavior is not produced. The altruistic mechanism does not rely on belief; therefore, they argue that it would be less likely to fail than the alternative, i.e. more reliable.
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first in the wide sense and then in the narrow sense. If I voluntarily gave up my life to save the lives of several strangers, my act would not be selfish, though I would be doing what in the wide sense I wanted to do.
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Sober and Wilson argue that when evaluating the likelihood of a given trait to evolve, three factors must be considered: availability, reliability and energetic efficiency. The genes for a given trait must first be
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Mees, U., & Schmitt, A. (2008). Goals of action and emotional reasons for action. A modern version of the theory of ultimate psychological hedonism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(2), 157โ€“178.
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is also often read as a psychological egoist, but this is fairly controversial, especially in respect of whether or not he used it to ground his moral theory. See Gert (1967) and Lloyd & Sreedhar (2008).
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efficiency. As availability and energetic efficiency are taken to be equivalent for both mechanisms it follows that the more reliable mechanism will then be the more likely mechanism.
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To counter this critique, psychological egoism asserts that all such desires for the well-being of others are ultimately derived from self-interest. For example, German philosopher
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view, since it only makes claims about how things are, not how they "ought to be" according to some. It is, however, related to several other normative forms of egoism, such as
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Sober, E., & Wilson, D. S. (1999). Unto others: the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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Critics have stated that proponents of psychological egoism often confuse the satisfaction of their own desires with the satisfaction of their own
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be manipulated through reward and punishment, both of which have direct effects of pain and pleasure. Also, the work of some social scientists has
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or the measurement of relative gains and losses in pain and pleasure to determine the most pleasurable action a human could choose in a situation.
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pleasure or decreasing pain, even those defined as altruistic and those that do not cause an immediate change in satisfaction levels.
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Ethics and human well-being: an introduction to moral philosophy. Year 1996. Chapter 1. Psychological Egoism. By Edward Jarvis Bond.
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borrowed much from psychological egoism and psychological hedonism in particular. The pleasure principle rules the behavior of the
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was a psychological egoist for some of his career, though he is said to have repudiated that later in his campaign against
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in the 19th century, and has been restated many times since. An earlier version of the same objection was made by
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which is an unconscious force driving humans to release tension from unfulfilled desires. When Freud introduced
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is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness, even in what seem to be acts of
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Some theorists explain behavior motivated by self-interest without using pleasure and pain as the
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interests our own, and the satisfaction of their desires becomes our own, not just theirs. Both
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Ibn-Qutaiba Al-Dainoori, "Taweel Mukhtalaf AlHadith" (interpretation of controversial Hadith),
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supported this theory. Further, they claim psychological egoism posits a theory that is a more
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psychological hedonism. Bentham endeavored to find the ideal human behavior based on
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produce an increase in fitness for the organism. The trait must also operate with
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of psychological egoism. He expounds it in the following cross-examination:
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well-being of the victim, even though the desire itself is the caller's own.
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Index

Psychological Egoism
Egotism
Egoism
Egoist (disambiguation)
altruism
descriptive
normative
ethical egoism
rational egoism
pleasure
pain
Sextus Empiricus
Pierre Bayle
Bernard Mandeville
final causes
Epicureanism
Epicurus
Jeremy Bentham
hedonic calculus
Herbert Spencer
pleasure principle
Id
Thanatos
Eros
quantitative
behaviorism
classical conditioning
operant conditioning
reinforcement
punishment

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