Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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It's not based on self-interest.
And whether or not people agree with Kant's particular views about duty and its content, I think most of moral philosophy subsequent to Kant has been
really internalize this distinction between acting prudentially, acting for yourself, and acting morally, and has seen that even as part of what defines the scope of the moral, that it's that which can trump self-interest.
So this idea of a morality of self-sacrifice or a morality that's about putting something above your self-interest.
is, I think, really central to philosophical thought from the late eighteenth century on, uh maybe even a little earlier.
And, you know, we can call that altruism, whether or not it's you know, sometimes that gets called altruism, though I don't think it's the technically best term for it.
And then finally one other use of this term is that sometimes people just call any action that's benevolent or nice to other people altruistic.
But I I think that's really misleading and I I think that when people do that
it's more theoretically laden, even in common usage, than terms like kind, nice, polite, benevolent.
It's assuming when you call holding the door for someone or giving to a charity altruistic.
I think there's an assumption built into that that this is something that's seen as at odds with your self interest and you do it otherwise.
Well, I think being collaborative is often good.
And certainly thinking about others is often good.
It's the what place do they play in your thinking?
And any plausible theory of what's good for you as an individual is going to incl include lots of working with other people, lots of dealing with other people, lots of having other people's lives go well too.
And uh it'll include them, I think, even as parts of that end of what a good life for you is, but it'll include them at least as means to your end.
So I don't see the valuing of other people or as collaborative effort as a foil to or an objection to egoism.
What
I see going on we say you ought to think more of other people.
Where that's a legitimate concern, I don't see as much different from other things.
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