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Jul 31, 2018 · Compassion is a natural feeling, which, by moderating the violence of love of self in each individual, contributes to the preservation of the whole species. It is this compassion that
- Alfred Archer
c) Compassion: the desire for another’s well-being. “Man’s three fundamental ethical incentives, egoism, malice, and compassion,” according to Schopenhauer, “are present in everyone in different and incredibly unequal proportions. In accordance with them, motives will operate on man and actions will ensue.”
C6.P4 Compassion can be inhibited when it is being perceived as detrimental to self-interests. 4 People who are motivated by high social dominance—that is, those who view the world as a competitive, dog-eat-dog environment of winners and losers—can endorse very noncompassionate values to out-groups. 5, 6 They are more ruthless, less other-concerned, less tolerant, and often linked to the ...
Sep 28, 2001 · In its might and courage our military is unequaled; it is the moral responsibility of Washington to issue battle plans that will properly “shock and awe” the enemy. Eschewing self-interest in the name of compassion is immoral. The result is self-destruction. About The Authors
self-love is the root of the social passions, including compassion itself. By self-love, narrowly conceived, I mean that self-love which causes human beings to consider their good in isolation from the good of others, that self-love, in other words, that is typically opposed to compassion by liberalism's critics.
This chapter introduces the long-standing idea that inappropriate motives, such as self-interest, can militate against virtuous motivation (acting for the right reasons). Some theorists have tried to show that we are universally egoistic by appeal to empirical research, particularly evolutionary theory, moral development, and the neuroscience of learning.
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Jan 25, 2016 · Can compassion be good for the bottom line? According to Emma Seppälä, author of The Happiness Track, the answer is a clear yes. In the following excerpt from the book, Seppälä tells the story of someone who used compassion to his competitive advantage. Drake is a happy, generous, and other-focused person. He is always interested […]