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Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism - Society, Relationship, and Responsibility (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism - Society, Relationship, and Responsibility (Hardcover)
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This book aims to analyse the concept of altruism starting from
classical philosophy up to the systems of ideas of contemporaneity,
considering the approaches and authors of reference in an
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary way. The representations of
altruism and egoism in contemporary society are constantly
changing, following the transformations of society itself. Having
abandoned the idea that the factors leading to altruism or egoism
lay only in human nature, we find them in people's conduct,
freedom, relationships, their associative forms and society. The
attention is thus turned to two elements of the daily life of
individuals: culture and social relations. The book tries,
therefore, through the meso-theories developed in recent decades,
which study the relationships between life-world and social system,
to describe the links between altruism, egoism, culture and social
relations. We will pay particular attention to the relationality of
individuals, in an attempt to overcome the dichotomy
altruism/egoism by reading some aspects little considered by
previous studies - or contemplated only indirectly or marginally.
The ultimate goal is to highlight how positive actions are
necessary for the contemporary society and how social sciences must
go back and study positive socio-cultural actions and phenomena,
not only negative, as a way to promote them for the well-being of
the society.
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