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DescriptionJournal of Controversial Ideas Volume 01 Issue 01 (April 2021) 06 A Puzzle about Self-Sacrificing Altruism.pdf |
English: I present a puzzle concerning individual self-sacrificing altruism (SSA) that, to the best of my knowledge, has not been considered before. I develop an argument that challenges the common sense attitudes towards self-sacrificial altruism in typical, paradigmatic cases. I consider SSA involving sacrificing one’s life for other human beings, focusing, for the sake of simplicity, on saving a single person. We have reasons to think that many paradigmatic acts of SSA may, on reflection, be irrational, that typical moral heroes are mistaken, that dispositional self-sacrificers should perhaps resist their good urges to keep saving people, and that the enchantments of heroism should regularly be resisted. |
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Source | https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/1/1/135 |
Author | Saul Smilansky |
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