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1. Home Based Online Business Success - The Importance of Values and Dreams! October 08, 2009 Your values influence your whole life. They are intrinsic to your being. Values influence what you believe is important, and how you lead your life. Your values influence how you act and react with others and also how you act when no one is watching...So, what do you value? What is important to you? Truth? Honesty? Organization? Freedom? Capitalism? Altruism? Physical Fitness? Spirituality? You can readily see that your values are very important. Living in harmony with them brings fulfillment to your life. You live with conviction, contribution, and happiness. When you are out of harmon... (read more) Author: Robert Quadra

2. Personal Salvation During the Coming Economic Chaos - Part II September 10, 2009 In Part 1 I discussed the destructiveness of social altruism and the pitfalls of personal altruism. Irrational selfishness ties in with altruism because altruists need irrationally selfish people. Often they go hand in hand—attempting to achieve the same illogical goals. Other times it is the self-destructive actions of the irrationally selfish that give altruists, do-gooders, world improvers and politicians something to moralize about—and unfortunately something to campaign against. One example was prohibition. Some people destroy themselves with excessive alcohol consumption. This is a ... (read more) Author: Santosh Vishwakarma

3. Personal security in a natural disaster. March 24, 2009 When a natural disaster strikes, chaos naturally follows. We'd all like to think that the good in humans come out then. But altruism does not always rule the day and that is simply human nature. Whether you find yourself facing a hurricane, earthquake, tornado, wildfire, or tsunami, it is essential to take your own personal safety and security in a natural disaster into consideration. The sad fact is that when natural disaster strikes, some people will seek personal gain. You must arm and protect yourself and there are a number of products on the market that can help you stay secure. Firs... (read more) Author: Eric Holm

4. California Psychologist Says Humans Have Evolved to Cooperate March 04, 2009 Psychologist Dacher Keltner says recent studies of the brain and nervous system show a biological basis for compassion and altruism.  The researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of a new book called Born to Be Good.  Dacher Keltner says people are self-interested and can be fiercely competitive, but that is just part of the story.  He says recent studies of the brain and his own research on the nervous system show that human behavior has another side.  As Professor Keltner explains it, people are hard-wired to be concerned with others, even with ... (read more)

5. Moral Philosophy: Altruism and Selfishness April 23, 2008 Many cultures and moral philosophies have promoted so-called selflessness, such as the ethical doctrine of altruism by Auguste Comte (who coined the term altruism). Perhaps as a result, some other philosophies have promoted so-called selfishness, such as the ethical doctrine of Egoism and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. Putting prescriptive morality aside, I contend that the self-interestedness supported by pro-selfishness philosophers does not necessarily conflict with the kindness supported by pro-selflessness philosophers. The two philosophical viewpoints appear to directly ... (read more) Author: Scott Hughes

6. The Problem of Greed in Real Estate Investing December 28, 2007 We live in a world that offers temptations at every turn. It is easy to ruin a great thing as the result of greed. However, if you are careful from the beginning you can establish your real estate investment business in a manner that encourages and even rewards altruism rather than breeding an environment that is ripe for greed to take hold. The problem with real estate is that in order to get the really good deals we sometimes have to be a little ‘unfeeling’. That doesn’t mean that you can’t be compassionate or identify with the feelings of those selling their homes, particularly if the... (read more) Author: Judson Voss

7. De Beers Executive Calls for Diamond Cutting Centers in Africa October 16, 2007 The head of the world's largest diamond company has urged traders to support the creation of diamond cutting and polishing centers in Africa. Gareth Penny, managing director of the South Africa-based De Beers company, said it is not altruism, but good business sense to create new jobs in fledgling African democracies. Penny spoke Monday at a diamond industry conference in Antwerp, Belgium. The conference also heard from a Botswanaian mining industry official, Kago Moshashane, who said his country is planning to create thousands of new jobs in the diamond processing industry. But activist and... (read more)

8. Three-Level View of Psychological Egoism September 19, 2007 While my reasoning is not likely to have influence on the opinions of those who really believe in altruism, for the aim of the current section, I shall pretend that psychological egoism really exists, meaning that people are always have motives to act for their own best interest. To be more specific, I shall suppose that the self-interest they are trying to achieve is nothing more then pleasure (avoidance of pain). I suppose that the pleasures that for us, humans, can be found at three levels. This idea was investigated and briefly discussed by Mill. He talks about lower level of pl... (read more) Author: Andrew Schwartz

9. Psychological Egoism Vs. Hedonism. September 17, 2007 Long time before I dared to enter my first philosophy class, I frequently was involved in friendly, but at the same time passionate discussions with friends and colleagues, holding fast to my strong belief that altruism merely does not exist. All actions we think to be altruistic, I argued, come from some self-interest. Now, of course, I identify this belief as psychological egoism. Maybe, it could be argued, that my persistent denying of altruism and defending egoism was the outcome of my naivety, my infant ignorance of the deeper layers of the subject which can only be cognized t... (read more) Author: Andrew Schwartz

10. Basic Definitions for Psychological Egoism, Hedonism and Altruism September 13, 2007 The aim of my work is to investigate the essence of both psychological egoism and hedonism, and to reach the objections raised up by Feinberg. Acting this way, I have several purposes. First, I will give a basic definition of psychological egoism, altruism and hedonism. Then, I will present my personal vision as for the notion of psychological egoism, giving in details my three-level method. Finally, I will discuss the objections Feinberg has as for this point. My purpose is to manage to do all enumerated above and still meet the space limitations suggested for this writing. So, I star... (read more) Author: Andrew Schwartz

11. Rational Christian Answer To Ayn Rand March 19, 2006 As a Christian I wish to respond to Ayn Rand's non-theistic and self-centered philosophy and arguments against Christian altruism. I am quite familiar with Ayn Rand's philosophy, and the fact is Ayn Rand would be totally correct if Darwinian macro-evolutionary theory were true. However, the actual and objective scientific evidence shows that there are natural limits to evolution in nature and that we are not here by chance or by macro-evolutionary processes. Please read my essay on the subject at www.religionscience.com. Therefore, there is a God to Whom Ayn Rand and all of us must give an acc... (read more) Author: Babu Ranganathan

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