Rule egoism

{{Short description|Selecting rules that most benefit the self}}

Rule egoism is the doctrine under which an individual evaluates the optimal set of rules based on whether conformity to those rules would bring the most benefit to themselves.Kagan, Shelly. 1998. Normative Ethics. Westview Press. p. 199 An action, therefore, is right if it promotes one's welfare at least as well as any alternative rule available to them.{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbooket00copp|url-access=limited|last=Copp|first=David|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780195147797|location=Oxford|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbooket00copp/page/n398 384]}} It is associated with foundational egoism, which maintains that normative factors must be grounded in consideration of the agent's well-being - something that rule egoism does but in a way that avoids factoral egoism.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJVLDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22rule+egoism%22&pg=PT290|title=Normative Ethics|last=Kagan|first=Shelly|date=2018-02-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780429978289|language=en}}