[lbo-talk] Altruism & Evolution?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Nov 27 20:42:58 PST 2004


joanna bujes wrote:
>
> Altruism only needs to be "explained" if you assume that the world is an
> aggregate of (self-serving) individuals.

Yes.

The word was coined by Auguste Comte -- i.e., the concept was created to name a problem that only showed up in an utterly ahistorical and radically individualist worldview.

The problem does not exist because the assumptions that pose it are false.

Carrol



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