It is not clear and easy to pigeonhole Dennis Prager's ethical view. On one hand he, like today on his radio show, warns people to ask what is good, not what is good for me. To ask what is good is to discover one's duty out there and to work and exert oneself to make the world better; it is not to ask what is good for me.
For the egoist he can ask what is in it for him, and one could replay that taking care of others is one way of taking care of the self.
Prager's altruistic criticism of asking what is in it for me does resonate with Christian and altruist criticism that individualism, egoism and self-concern are selfish, and are the most evil forces at work on the planet.
Then Prager elsewhere extols the virtue of American individualism, rationalism, and capitalism--all consistent with egoistic ethics.
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