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9781626160101 | Georgetown Univ Pr, December 15, 2013, cover price $32.95
Product Description: What motivates altruism? How essential is the phenomenon of altruism to the human experience? Is altruism readily accessible to the ordinary person? In The Altruistic Species, Andrew Michael Flescher and Daniel L. Worthen explore these questions through the lenses of four disciplinary perspectivesâbiology, psychology, philosophy, and religion...read more
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9781599471228 | Templeton Foundation Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: What motivates altruism?
Product Description: Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary peopleâunique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected)...read more
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9780878401376 | Georgetown Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary peopleâunique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals.
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