Two approaches to self-love: Hutcheson and Butler

This paper contrasts Frankfurt’s characterisation of self-love as disinterested with the predominant 18th-century view on self-love as interested. Ttwo senses of the term ‘interest’ are distinguished to discuss two fundamentally different readings of the claim that self-love promotes the agent’s in...

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Main Author: Christian Maurer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2006-01-01
Series:European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
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Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/135792