Recent Work on Human Altruism and Evolution  

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Sesardic, Neven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 106 no. 1 (Oct. 1995), page 128-157.
Topik: Recent Work on Human Altruism and Evolution

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Altruism and evolution do not mix well. Paraphrasing Quine (1969, p. 126) one might say that "inveterately altruistic creatures habe a pathetic tendency to die before reproducing their kind." Such a view that rather simple Darwinian forces work strongly against the preservation of altruistic traits is actually the background against which various explanations of the genesis of human altruism are being defended and discussed today. Indeed, if we call "paradoxical" any situation where we have seemingly convincing evidence in favor of each of two (or more) propositions that are seemingly mutually irreconcilable, then participants in the current debate about the emergence of human altruism are also haunted by a paradox. Moreover, since the debate is so conspicuously and so persistently revolving around this basic difficulty it seems methodologically appropriate to make the "paradox of altruism" the cornerstone of my presentation of the recent work on the topic.

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