caa a22 4500 475829859 CHVBK 20180406123838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008923809507 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008923809507 Clohesy William Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Northern Iowa, 50614-0501, Cedar Falls, Iowa aut Altruism and the Endurance of the Good [Elektronische Daten] [William Clohesy] Egoism is a pervasive trait in modern market societies that encourages people to focus upon their own self-interest above all else. Third-sector organizations, by contrast, are frequently termed "altruistic.” This essay elucidates the meaning of "altruism” as it applies to these organizations. Moral altruism means direct concern for another's well being—whoever that person might be. This study rejects psychological egoism as a meaningful psychological theory, and ethical egoism as a coherent moral position; it discusses empirical studies of altruism in rescuers of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe as proof against the former form of egoism and Kant's moral theory against the latter. The essay then argues that altruism is a form of public action in Hannah Arendt's sense of this term. The essay concludes that third-sector organizations are altruistic insofar as they engage in public action, thereby, treating beneficiaries with respect for their individuality. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 altruism nationallicence egoism nationallicence third sector nationallicence bureaucracy nationallicence ethics nationallicence Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/3(2000-09-01), 237-253 0957-8765 11:3<237 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008923809507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008923809507 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clohesy William Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Northern Iowa, 50614-0501, Cedar Falls, Iowa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/3(2000-09-01), 237-253 0957-8765 11:3<237 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer