Word: self-interest
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This fun fact comes from a recent study by scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, which set out to test whether behaviors observed in the wild were the result of cooperation or coincidentally parallel self-interest. A chimpanzee was placed in a cage, outside of which was a plank with a piece of food. By pulling on two ropes simultaneously, the chimp could pull the food close enough to reach...
...students’ sensitivity to moral questions.Towards that end, a requirement was proposed in “Philosophical Analysis,” which later became Moral Reasoning. Keller writes that the requirement attempted to meet the needs of several types of students, in particular skeptics who believed that disguised self-interest was the only basis of rational choice.“My own experience teaching Moral Reasoning during the 1980s,” writes President Bok’s wife and former Moral Reasoning professor Sissela Bok in an e-mail, “was both challenging and exhilarating...
Harvard civil rights expert Randall Kennedy urged a predominantly African American audience last night to be “radically individualistic,” while his colleague, legal scholar Lani Guinier, cautioned students against “selling out your soul” to self-interest. The two Law School faculty members, both black, joined a historian, a business professor, and an economist at a roundtable sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at which the scholars debated the notion of “acting white.” Kennedy, who is the Klein professor of law, said...
...free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia, U.S. Time's headline said it all. But you can't buy what isn't for sale. When are American voters going to demand elected leaders who will put the common good of the people above their self-interest? If we keep electing incumbents with for sale signs hanging from their necks, we will get what we deserve: a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. Wayne Jacobsen Moorpark, California, U.S. It is shameful that lobbyist Abramoff was able to buy Washington...
TIME's headline said it all. But you can't buy what isn't for sale. When are American voters going to demand elected leaders who will put the common good of the people above their self-interest? If we keep electing incumbents with FOR SALE signs hanging from their necks, we will get what we deserve: a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. WAYNE JACOBSEN Moorpark, Calif...