Promoting your own well-being only would be egoism, while ethics seems to be more similar to altruism
Well, yes. (You don’t have to start from.a tabular area , and then proceed in baby steps, since there is a lot of prior art)
because of the meaning of the involved term
But “desires” is not how “ethics” is defined in standard dictionaries or philosophy. It’s not “the” definition.
This doesn’t reflect the actual methodology, where theories are judged in thought experiments on whether they satisfy our intuitive, pre-theoretical concepts
That’s irrelevant. Rival theories still need shared connotation.
Well, yes. (You don’t have to start from.a tabular area , and then proceed in baby steps, since there is a lot of prior art)
But “desires” is not how “ethics” is defined in standard dictionaries or philosophy. It’s not “the” definition.
That’s irrelevant. Rival theories still need shared connotation.