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