Chapter 21 “Egoism is Mistaken” by David Humes

1. Juandi Setiawan (20191000004)
Chapter 21
“Egoism is Mistaken” by David
Humes

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About The Author
David Hume (1711-1776) studied law at the
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom but he
lost interest. Then he turned to the study of
Literature (literature and philosophy).
His philosophical writings are famous for
constructive skepticism (understandings that
perceive something are always uncertain
relating to knowledge and religion).

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About the work
In his book Questions about Moral Principles, Hume
rewrites from Human Nature. Hume presents the first
secularly agreed modern theory that supports social and
emotional roles.
Hume argued that what we "returned" did could never
be proven with agreement.

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Self-Love
• Self-love is a feeling of affection for yourself by
making him happy, but there are several ways to make
him happy, some are bad and some are good.

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The Self-Interest Hypothesis
• This principle is, all virtues are hypocrisy, friendship,
community spirit becomes freedom, loyalty is only to gain
trust. and basically only for personal gain, we do this only
to make other people complacent, and deceived by our
tricks.
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Simplicity
• In the future there is no better system to explain the
virtues or help of others, so to achieve simplicity
humans must reduce a variety of human emotional
thinking.

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Direct and Indirect Pleasure
• Direct pleasure is pleasure that we can immediately
feel when we do something. While indirect pleasure is
pleasure that we cannot immediately feel with
reciprocity from others.
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Benevolence
• Virtue is an obligation or quality that fulfills moral
virtue as a foundation of principles and moral
goodness.
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