ALTRUISM LOST

BY TATIANA DURÁN
Songs of selfishness
Barry Schwartz
biology, economics
 “evolutionary

and behavior theory share a

common vision of what it means to be a
person… human beings are out of
pursue self-interest, to satisfy wants, to
maximize utility, or preference, or
profit, or reinforcement, or reproductive
fitness. They are greedy, insatiable on
the pursuit of want satisfaction”
BIOLOGY
ECONOMICS AND OTHER SOCIAL
SCIENCES
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
 There are only three reasons people
give money to charity: direct benefits
to the donor, indirect benefits to the
donor, or a “kantian motive” in which
“a donor benefits neither directly nor
indirectly from the consumption of the
charitable good, but merely from the
act of giving…

A person is reliable if and only if it is
more advantageous to him than being
unreliable.
PSYCHOLOGY
tions only  between good and bad forms of selfishn
omeone is supposed to be direct function of the benefits he/she der
BEHIND THE APPEAL OF EGOISM
 Altruism is only a chimera.

 Morality is married to the idea of doing
for oneself.

 Ethical egoism

 Kant= self-love and morality pull in
opposite directions.
Utopia: altruistic perfection or a
race of saints
Conclusions
Reducing non-economic issues
has relation with reduce
economic issues.

Bonus/grades.
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Ethics pays.