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Recall a moment in your life when you acted as an Ethical Egoist. Identify what type and explain.
Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It is important to distinguish this from Psychological egoism, the claim that people can only act in their own interest. Psychological egoism is a claim about how people do act, not a claim about how they ought to act.Ethical egoism contrasts with ethical altruism, which holds that moral agents have an ethical obligation to help or serve others.
Types of ethical egoism
Individual ethical egoist : would hold that all people should do whatever benefits him
Personal ethical egoist: that he should act in his own self-interest, but makes no claims about what anyone else ought to do
Universal ethical egoist: argue that everyone should act in ways that are in their own interest.