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Friendship, Altruism And Morality (Routledge Revivals), Lawrence Blum
Friendship, Altruism And Morality (Routledge Revivals), Lawrence Blum
Lawrence Blum
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blum’s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics …
Altruism, Impartiality And Moral Demands, Jurgen De Wispelaere
Altruism, Impartiality And Moral Demands, Jurgen De Wispelaere
Jurgen De Wispelaere
Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational disposition towards furthering other people’s good. In this paper I dispute this claim by showing various ways in which altruism might come into conflict with plausible moral demands. The underlying problem is always one of moral myopia, an altruistic blind spot that interferes with altruism’s capacity to track moral demands. To resolve the moral dilemmas associated with altruism, I argue, we need to embed altruistic dispositions in a more comprehensive moral framework. I propose that a theory of impartiality might succeed in embedding altruism in …
The Theory Of Reciprocal Altruism, Robert Lipkin
The Theory Of Reciprocal Altruism, Robert Lipkin
Robert Justin Lipkin
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