Altruism is possible and altruism is real, although in healthy people it intertwines subtly with the well-being of the agent who does good. And this is crucial for seeing how to increase the amount of altruism in the world. Aristotle had it right in his \u201cNicomachean Ethics\u201d: we have to raise people from their \u201cvery youth\u201d and educate them \u201cso as both to delight in and to be pained by the things that we ought.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Judith Lichtenberg, on altruism: is pure altruism possible? Altruism is possible and altruism is real, although in healthy people it intertwines subtly with the well-being of the agent who does good. And this is crucial for seeing how to increase the amount of altruism in the world. Aristotle had it right in his \u201cNicomachean Ethics\u201d: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1219],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-altruism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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