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Sticky Wickedness: Games and Morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Bernard Suits
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo

Abstract

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Discussion/Note
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1982

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References

1 Kalin, Jesse, “On Ethical Egoism”, American Philosophical Quarterly, Monograph No. 1, Studies in Moral Philosophy (1968), 2641.Google Scholar

2 Narveson, Jan, “Egoism, Consistency, and Morality” (an unpublished paper).Google Scholar

3 For a defense and elaboration of this point see Suits, Bernard, “What Is a Game?”, Philosophy of Science 34/2 (1967), 148156Google Scholar, and/or The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978).Google Scholar

4 Kalin, Jesse, “In Defense of Egoism”, in Morality and Rational Self-Interest, ed. Gauthier, David P. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970).Google Scholar

5 Kaiin clearly seems to take this view (ibid., 75).