Moral Philosophy: Selflessness And Selfishness

| January 29, 2012

Many cultures and moral philosophies have promoted so-referred to as selflessness, such as the ethical doctrine of altruism by Auguste Comte (who coined the term altruism). Maybe because of this, some other philosophies have promoted so-known as selfishness, comparable to the moral doctrine of Egoism and Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism.< /p> Placing prescriptive morality [...]