The book Better World Philosophy; a Sociological Synthesis was written by author Moore, J. Howard (John Howard), B. 1862 Here you can read free online of Better World Philosophy; a Sociological Synthesis book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Better World Philosophy; a Sociological Synthesis a good or bad book?
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He prefers to do, under the circum- stances, whatever he does do. The 98 BETTER-WORLD PHILOSOPHT difference in individuals is not in that some act according to their own inclinations and others do not. No creature can by any possible ruse escape from its own nature. The will is always the composite of the impulses, and every being acts always and absolutely in the interests of its own desires. The difference in individuals, and it is great, consists in the different class or character of their ...desires. A mind must be tolerably rudimentary which supposes that there is no in- trinsic difference between that egoism called egoism, which drives an individ- ual to act for himself regardless of others, and that egoism, called altru- ism, which impels acts in behalf of others and in violence to self. There is no greater difference between Janu- ary and June. Where did these two elements in our nature, egoism and altruism, come from? Why have human beings and all other beings known to terrestrial EGOISM AND ALTRUISM 99 intelligence these two elements, just as they are, in 'their natures?
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