Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

PsychologicalEgoism

The view that we are always motivated by self-interest, even in seeming acts of AlTruism.


PsychologicalEgoism can be contrasted well with EthicalEgoism, which is the view that we always _ought_ to be motivated by SelfInterest.