Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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So this
This is Comte's view, and that's what I if you're gonna take altruism as the name of a moral theory, I would say it's Comptism, you know, that it's that theory.
Um altruism is also used in the more psychological sense, actions that are motivated for others.
And it's used now, I think, in two senses that are distinct from Comte's.
One is to describe
actions that are motivated ultimately uh for other people's sake.
So you might not think all actions should be like this, but you might think uh there are actions like this.
And almost every ethical theory says there ought to be some actions like this, you ought to take some actions like this.
So we can think of altruism as uh the view that some altruistic actions are right.
And
Then there's another sense of it in which it's sort of like the foil to egoism.
Because you might think that what conventional
or what a lot of conventional ethical thinking is about.
is curbing egoism.
is saying that there's gotta be something that trumps your self interest.
And that the reason why
Compt term altruism caught on.
is because it was identifying the thing that's opposite to self interest that ought to be driving people.
And if that's really what's going on, the serving other people is sort of a placeholder, but there's this kind of basic idea that it can't all be about self.
There's gotta be something that's higher than self.
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