Can we achieve "pure" altruism?
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Existence of sociopathy - argument against altruism being in our nature


Altruism is an advanced form of natural selection among the same species

[1]https://medium.com/@nitishsharma0738/beyond-altruism-people-forgetting-liberalism-6107cd508363

Feinberg's egoist vs. psychological egoism

[1]Joel Feinberg. "Psychological Egoism." in "Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy" 3rd ed. Joel Feinberg, ed. Enciono, CA: Dickenson, 1975. 501-512.505.
[2] Duncan-Jones, Austin. Butler's Moral Philosophy. London: Penguin, 1952.,p.96
[3]Feinberg, Joel. "Psychological Egoism." In Reason & Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, edited by Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, 520-532. California: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008., p.521
[4]Garvin, Lucius F. C. A Modern Introduction to Ethics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.,p.512f
[5]Ibid, ref.3, p.522
Judith Lichtenberg and “the possibility of pure altruism”

Most probably multifactorial; there can be no 'pure altruism'
[1]https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Harbaugh-MotivesForDonations_1.pdf

The debate can only survive if we consider an individual to be separate from the whole
