The mythology of selfishness

The Philosophers' Magazine 53:35-45 (2011)
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Darwin said that our social instincts are so crucial to our lives that they must have been strongly developed during evolution by means of group-selection. These instincts now ground our motives and shape the complexity of our lives. So the idea of deriving all our motivation from the single stem of “selfishness” is radically mistaken

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10.5840/tpm20115371

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Mary Midgley
Last affiliation: Newcastle University, UK

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