Are these meant to be exhaustive?
I didn’t explicitly intend them to be exhaustive, but we can make the following argument for why it seems pretty exhaustive:
As you point out in another comment, there’s a sense in which everything we do is “self-oriented” in some way
Still, “altruism” remains a meaningful concept. People are “altruistic” if the thing that gives them personal meaning includes helping others
So, life goals would be self-oriented by default, but some life goals are self-oriented and other-regarding.
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I didn’t explicitly intend them to be exhaustive, but we can make the following argument for why it seems pretty exhaustive:
As you point out in another comment, there’s a sense in which everything we do is “self-oriented” in some way
Still, “altruism” remains a meaningful concept. People are “altruistic” if the thing that gives them personal meaning includes helping others
So, life goals would be self-oriented by default, but some life goals are self-oriented and other-regarding.