Morality and Self-Interest

Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral? Can morality and self-interest be understood independently of each other?

Christopher Morris, The Trouble With Justice
Mathias Risse, Nietzsche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of the Higher Men
Richard Joyce, Morality, Schmorality
David Schmidtz, Because It's Right
Thomas Nagel, The Value of Inviolability
Samuel Scheffler, Potential Congruence
Stephen Finlay, Too Much Morality
Terence Irwin Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation
Ralph Wedgwood, Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature
Julia Annas, Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism
W.D. Falk, Morality, Self, and Others
Paul Bloomfield, Why It's Bad To Be Bad
Joel Kupperman, Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue
Michael Stocker, Shame and Guilt; Self Interest and Morality