EGOISM, EMPATHY, AND SELF-OTHER MERGING
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Egoism, Empathy, and Self-Other Merging
Some philosophers and psychologists have evaluated psychological egoism against recent experimental work in social psychology. Dan Batson (1991; forthcoming), in particular, argues that empathy tends to induce genuinely altruistic motives in humans. However, some argue that there are egoistic explanations of the data which remain unscathed. I focus here on some recent criticisms based on the id...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Southern Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0038-4283
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00055.x