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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
There is one central, non-controversial idea we're taught about morality--that self-sacrifice is a virtue. What if it's wrong? From childhood, we are told that serving the needs of others, rather than our own, is the essence of morality and the way to achieve social harmony. To be ethical--it is believed--is to be altruistic. Here, Peter Schwartz questions this notion. Schartz argues that what altruism demands is not that you respect the rights of...
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