Selfish, Altruism, and Money
Author | : Antonio Luigi Paolilli |
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Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : 9781618960795 |
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Author | : Antonio Luigi Paolilli |
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Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : 9781618960795 |
Author | : Howard Margolis |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1984-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226505243 |
Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves. "Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and political science for too long."—Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Tony Vaux |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781849774307 |
Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climat.
Author | : Dacher Keltner |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-01-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0393076857 |
Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness. At the forefront of this revolution in scientific understanding is the Greater Good Science Center, based at the University of California, Berkeley. The center fuses its cutting-edge research with inspiring stories of compassion in action in Greater Good magazine. The best of these writings are collected here, and contributions from Steven Pinker, Robert Sapolsky, Paul Ekman, Michael Pollan, and the Dalai Lama, among others, will make you think not only about what it means to be happy and fulfilled but also what it means to lead an ethical and compassionate life.
Author | : Oren Harman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2011-06-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393339998 |
Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and took his own life in a squatter's flat.
Author | : Richard Dawkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780192860927 |
Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science
Author | : Peter Singer |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812981561 |
Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Author | : Barbara Oakley |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2012-01-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199738572 |
Pathological Altruism is a groundbreaking new book - the first to explore the negative aspects of altruism and empathy, seemingly uniformly positive traits. In fact, pathological altruism, in the form of an unhealthy focus on others to the detriment of one's own needs, may underpin some personality disorders. Hyperempathy - an excess of concern for what others think and how they feel - helps explain popular but poorly defined concepts such as codependency. The contributing authors of this book provide a scientific, social, and cultural foundation for the subject of pathological altruism, creating a new field of inquiry. Each author's approach points to one disturbing truth: what we value so much, the altruistic "good" side of human nature, can also have a dark side that we ignore at our peril.
Author | : David Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0300189494 |
Argues that altruism is an inherent factor of group functionality and discusses how studying group function can promote positive changes to the human condition.
Author | : Peter Schwartz |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1466878908 |
From childhood, we're taught one central, non-controversial idea about morality: self-sacrifice is a virtue. It is universally accepted that serving the needs of others, rather than our own, is the essence of morality. To be ethical—it is believed—is to be altruistic. Questioning this belief is regarded as tantamount to questioning the self-evident. Here, Peter Schwartz questions it. In Defense of Selfishness refutes widespread misconceptions about the meaning of selfishness and of altruism. Basing his arguments on Ayn Rand's ethics of rational self-interest, Schwartz demonstrates that genuine selfishness is not exemplified by the brutal plundering of an Attila the Hun or the conniving duplicity of a Bernard Madoff. To the contrary, such people are acting against their actual, long-range interests. The truly selfish individual is committed to moral principles and lives an honest, productive, self-respecting life. He does not feed parasitically off other people. Instead, he renounces the unearned, and deals with others—in both the material and spiritual realms—by offering value for value, to mutual benefit. The selfish individual, Schwartz maintains, lives by reason, not force. He lives by production and trade, not by theft and fraud. He disavows the mindlessness of the do-whatever-you-feel-like emotionalist, and upholds rationality as his primary virtue. He takes pride in his achievements, and does not sacrifice himself to others—nor does he sacrifice others to himself. According to the code of altruism, however, you must embrace self-sacrifice. You must subordinate yourself to others. Altruism calls, not for cooperation and benevolence, but for servitude. It demands that you surrender your interests to the needs of others, that you regard serving others as the moral justification of your existence, that you be willing to suffer so that a non-you might benefit. To this, Schwartz asks simply: Why? Why should the fact that you have achieved any success make you indebted to those who haven't? Why does the fact that someone needs your money create a moral entitlement to it, while the fact that you've earned it, doesn't? Using vivid, real-life examples, In Defense of Selfishness illustrates the iniquity of requiring one man to serve the needs of another. This provocative book challenges readers to re-examine the standard by which they decide what is morally right or wrong.