naa a22 4500 510789773 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9434-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9434-5 Slote Michael Philosophy Department, University of Miami, Ashe Building, 33124, Coral Gables, FL, USA aut Egoism and Emotion [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Slote] Recently, the idea that human beings may be totally egoistic has resurfaced in philosophical and psychological discussions. But many of the arguments for that conclusion are conceptually flawed. Psychologists are making a conceptual error when they think of the desire to avoid guilt as egoistic; and the same is true of the common view that the desire to avoid others' disapproval is also egoistic. Sober and Wilson argue against this latter idea on the grounds that such a desire is relational, but a deeper reason stems from the fact that it places such intrinsic importance on other human beings. And other basic human desires, like the desire for love, the desire for revenge, the impulse to imitate others, and the desire to belong, also treat others as important and on those grounds cannot count as egoistic. Another line of recent argument for egoism stems from the work of Robert Cialdini et al., and claims that the way we identify and feel one with those other people we empathize with and seek to help shows us to be thinking of those others as part of or identical with ourselves. This is supposed to show that our putative altruism is basically self-centered and egoistic, but Cialdini arguably misinterprets what we mean when we speak of feeling one with someone else, and the phenomena he mentions don't therefore stand in favor of psychological egoism. More generally, many of the positive and negative emotions we feel toward others are best interpreted as non-egoistic, and there is no reason at this point to doubt that humans are capable of altruistic motivation. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Altruism nationallicence Egoism nationallicence Emotion nationallicence Imitation nationallicence Malice nationallicence Need for love nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 313-335 0048-3893 41:2<313 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9434-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9434-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Slote Michael Philosophy Department, University of Miami, Ashe Building, 33124, Coral Gables, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 313-335 0048-3893 41:2<313 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer