That book views this philosophy as the endpoint of a three-stage developmental process beginning with realism and idealism.
A philosophical school of this name was held up as the negation of "moralism" in a book by James Walker, who also wrote articles espousing that philosophy under the name "Tak Kak" for a periodical edited by Benjamin Tucker. Joel Steinberg argued that the desire for satisfaction espoused by a "psychological" philosophy with this name represents a nonsensical infinite regression. In The Methods of Ethics, Henry Sidgwick introduced the (*) "ethical" form of a philosophy with this name. The book best- known for espousing this philosophy called for the establishment of a "union" of this philosophy's practitioners, and largely served as an attack on the author of The Essence of Christianity. That book views this philosophy as the endpoint of a three-stage developmental process beginning with realism and idealism. For 10 points, name this word applied to the individualist anarchist philosophy of Max Stirner, who advocated putting oneself ahead of all others.
A philosophical school of this name was held up as the negation of "moralism" in a book by James Walker, who also wrote articles espousing that philosophy under the name "Tak Kak" for a periodical edited by Benjamin Tucker.
egoism [accept ethical egoism or psychological egoism; accept word forms like egoist; anti-prompt on answers like "anarchism" or "individualist anarchism"] 