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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (60157)9/30/2002 4:09:51 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
I think the reduction of everything to self- interest is a logical error. Clearly, we are motivated to do various things that are not obviously in our self- interest. Yet the reductionist asserts that because we feel like doing them, they must, ultimately be self- interested. That is nonsense. Since what matters to us is what happens to something outside ourselves, the interest is not in self. That fact that it matters to one does not automatically make the object of solicitude oneself. Nor is it a question of long term/ short term benefit. People do not throw themselves on grenades for any kind of personal benefit, and it is ludicrous to say that the personal benefit IS the corporate benefit, since again, one is acting on behalf of those outside oneself. The concept of self- interest becomes broad beyond recognition if one includes such actions.....
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