Altruism
Some people have problems understand what altruism. Here is what the Comte who created altruism has to say. (From Wikipedia)
The word "altruism" (French, altruisme, from autrui: "other people", derived from Latin alter: "other") was coined by Auguste Comte, the French founder of positivism, in order to describe the ethical doctrine he supported. He believed that individuals had a moral obligation to renounce self-interest and live for others. Comte says, in his Catéchisme Positiviste,[2] that:
[The] social point of view cannot tolerate the notion of rights, for such notion rests on individualism. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. After our birth these obligations increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.... This ["to live for others"], the definitive formula of human morality, gives a direct sanction exclusively to our instincts of benevolence, the common source of happiness and duty. [Man must serve] Humanity, whose we are entirely."
The word "altruism" (French, altruisme, from autrui: "other people", derived from Latin alter: "other") was coined by Auguste Comte, the French founder of positivism, in order to describe the ethical doctrine he supported. He believed that individuals had a moral obligation to renounce self-interest and live for others. Comte says, in his Catéchisme Positiviste,[2] that:
[The] social point of view cannot tolerate the notion of rights, for such notion rests on individualism. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. After our birth these obligations increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.... This ["to live for others"], the definitive formula of human morality, gives a direct sanction exclusively to our instincts of benevolence, the common source of happiness and duty. [Man must serve] Humanity, whose we are entirely."
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If you received any sense of satisfaction, feeling of good, any remote emotional benefit to yourself, it was not selfless.
Look, we're not into the mystical organization nor are we entirely on board with his apprentices interpretation...they still spoke the bicameral language. To get a frame of reference here see: Julian Jaynes.
We all know here that "Altruism" is the most destructive concept mankind has had to endure and was invented by a sick bicameral brain and used against our natural creation of values so that our rulers could survive on our backs. If there was Anyone that understood that during those times, it was Jesus, Aristotle and a few others.
You're right that most people do not understand what altruism actually means. In my experience, it's usually because they don't clearly differentiate altruism from benevolence.
Bullshit. "Need does not create obligation."
Another comment I recently read (am chagrined I did not think of it), "Givers have to set limits because takers never do."
Its strange but there is no gene for altruism or for self interest as we have free will. The modern science of biothermodynamics makes it clear that acting for others increases energy costs at the expense of one self and ones loved ones. Any attempt to actually practice altruism fails for energetic and moral reasons.
Altruism is a really good thing -- for everybody who proposes it, but doesn't abide by it. Those who do abide by it sentence themselves to a life of privation and automatically become a servant class. So, if all you want is to become a junior Mother Theresa, have at it.
A rational person takes care of himself first, those he loves second, and if anything is left over, charity.
Its like convincing the jews that they have a duty to walk into the gas chambers willingly. Only the real socialists of today want you to work FOR them, not die off.
The quote is from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruis... and according to this article the quote was from Comte, August. Catéchisme positiviste (1852) or Catechism of Positivism, trans. R. Congreve, (London: Kegan Paul, 1891)
I do not think most people understand that Altruism means that you do not have any Rights
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