RE: Morality without the righteous. What is right and wrong?
March 12, 2013 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 6:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Wouldn't the care of others fall under the remit of your reaction to a given thing if you were placed in their shoes? Or does this care spring, source unknown or difficult to pin down, without such a consideration? I'd call that projecting self interest, personally. I wouldn't argue that this is the entirety of empathy, but it would seem to my mind to be a core component of it (and it at least offers the beginings of an explanation for a behavior which invokes a known and extremely powerful motivator). Sometimes I think that self interest or "selfish motivations" wouldn't get such a swift taboo appraisal if it were understood as a part of those behaviors and motivations that we positively value (and that does seem to be the case, cue the altruistic chimps and their honeycombs).
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