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Obillo, Marielle V. IT-EthicsMr. Paul PajoBook Review Sub- Chapter 1 of Chapter 1: James Rachels: Egoism and Moral ScepticismThe Contemporary Moral ProblemsAmazon Link: n/aQuote: “Our ordinary thinking about morality is full of assumptions that we almost never question.We assume for example, that we have an obligation to consider the welfare to other people when wedecide what actions to perform or rules to obey”What is morality? Morality basically knows what is right and wrong. Morality is always appliedwhen people performs things and when people interacts to other people. Without morality peoplecan never justify if what he is doing can be accepted, appreciated and understood by other. Basedon the quotation I have copied from the book, it is stated that people before performing or decidingfor things they always consider the welfare of others. They always take into consideration if peoplewill benefit from it. But is this really egoism or is there more beyond this?My Learning expectationActually I really don’t know what to expect since I don’t know anything about the book all Iknow is that it is a requirement given to us by my professor in IT-ethics, Mr. Pajo. What I expect tolearn is what the book is about. What it consist of and why is it relevant to us. Maybe in thesucceeding chapters I may be able to draw my expectations since I already know a bit of it after reading the first chapter.ReviewThis part of the first chapter talks about the egoism of people. How people use egoism andwhat is really the motive of it. First of all what is egoism? Based on my research on WikipediaEthical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought only to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, in that the last-mentioned claims that people
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only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism (which holds that itis rational to act in one's self-interest) and individualism, neither of which claims that acting in one'sself-interest is necessarily right. Ethical egoism is not, however, necessarily opposed to either of these latter philosophies.Now what we know the basics of egoism, right after I have read the subchapter, I realizedthat sometimes there are many egoistic person. Egoism is an attitude wherein people performs anddecides things that would first benefit others but the main reason is if they will benefit from it.What I have learned:I have learned and realized that sometimes I am an egoistic person. Sometimes I makedecisions and figure out if it will first benefit myself then the others. As a conclusion, I believe that
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