Book chapter
Altruism and Stealth Altruism
Stealth Altruism, pp 5-16
2017
Abstract
In the Langenbielau Slave Labor Camp, Helen Sendyk recalls watching a daily high-risk act of stealth altruism. Rounding out incentives for altruistic care sharing are two new social inventions. "Effective Altruism" emphasizes the use of computer monitoring to assure that an altruistic gift of money to a charity is performing as intended. Likewise, several states now authorize "Public Benefit Corporations", the corporate charter of which requires biannual reporting of progress made in meeting altruistic goals of explicit benefit to the public. In 2013 the American Sociological Association approved a new section devoted to the study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity. Nazi anti-Semitic eugenics held that the Jewish "race" was composed of subhumans, none of whom could possibly demonstrate altruistic behavior, a noble form of higher morality. The Altruistic Impulse are coming rapidly from brain imagers, cultural anthropologists, economists, ethicists, ethnologists, marketers, philosophers, political scientists, psychologists, sociobiologists, sociologists, and theologians.
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- Title
- Altruism and Stealth Altruism
- Creators
- Arthur B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Stealth Altruism, pp 5-16
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705369104721