[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

[Carrol Cox]

Jim is of course correct on this. But also of course relatively few
non-biologists make this distinction when they use the word or come
across it in their reading. It is unfortunate the biologists did no
select another term.

Carrol

Jim Farmelant wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:42:16 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
> > The concept of "altruism," invented by Comte, is a futile attempt to
> > resolve the contradiction btween a radically individualist
> > conception of
> > humanity on the one hand and the obvious sociality of human history
> > on
> > the other hand. (This sociality is older than homo sapiens.)
> 
> In biological theory, the concept of
> altruism is given a technical meaning. [CLIP[