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It really depends on your definition of self interest too. Benevolent people either think their benevolence benefits them materially, or gain satisfaction from
by yters 19y ago
It really depends on your definition of self interest too.
Benevolent people either think their benevolence benefits them materially, or gain satisfaction from altruism. Both are forms of self interest.
- kleevr 19y agoI personally think altruism is born the murkiest waters of self-interest. But discriptive psychalogical egoism skirts the the issue a bit and forks us into a long examination of the nature of the "soul". But, whether altruism is some measure "divine" (or symbolically derived), or born completely out of self-interest, there is a wide consensus on what it ought to look like. (egoism is an easy card play, we could pull the appartus down and have a look at it though, but we might not get much farther than those that have gone before us.)
- yters 19y agoI dunno. I think ideals exist, and that's what altruism is based on, at least the genuine kind. And I do think genuine altruism exists. However, I also agree that Nietszche's notion ressentiment also gets called altruism.
- kleevr 19y agoI always like the calculus on Aristotle's virtue ethics...