Altruism: the power of compassion to change yourself and the World
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TextPublication details: Atlantic Books London 2015Description: xi, 717 pISBN: - 9780857897015
- 171.8 RIC
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Table of content:
Introduction
Chapter 1: THE NATURE OF ALTRUISM
Chapter 2: EXTENDING ALTRUISM
Chapter 3: WHAT IS EMPATHY?
Chapter 4: FROM EMPATHY TO COMPASSION IN A NEUROSCIENCE LABORATORY
Chapter 5: LOVE, SUPREME EMOTION
Chapter 6: THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF A TWOFOLD BENEFIT, OUR OWN AND OTHERS’
Chapter 7: SELF- INTERESTED ALTRUISM AND GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY
Chapter 8: SELFLESS ALTRUISM
Chapter 9: THE BANALITY OF GOOD
Chapter 10: ALTRUISTIC HEROISM
Chapter 11: UNCONDITIONAL ALTRUISM
Chapter 12: BEYOND IMITATIONS, TRUE ALTRUISM: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
Chapter 13: THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST UNIVERSAL SELFISHNESS
Chapter 14: ALTRUISM IN THEORIES OF EVOLUTION
Chapter 15: MATERNAL LOVE, FOUNDATION FOR EXTENDED ALTRUISM?
Chapter 16: THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURES
Chapter 17: ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR AMONG ANIMALS
Chapter 18: ALTRUISM AMONG CHILDREN
Chapter 19: PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Chapter 20: CAN WE CHANGE?
Chapter 21: TRAINING THE MIND: WHAT THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES HAVE TO SAY
Chapter 22: HOW TO CULTIVATE ALTRUISM: MEDITATIONS ON ALTRUISTIC LOVE, COMPASSION, JOY, AND IMPARTIALITY
Chapter 23: EGOCENTRISM AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE EGO
Chapter 24: THE SPREAD OF INDIVIDUALISM AND NARCISSISM
Chapter 25: THE CHAMPIONS OF SELFISHNESS
Chapter 26: HAVING HATRED OR COMPASSION FOR YOURSELF
Chapter 27: THE SHORTFALL OF EMPATHY
Chapter 28: AT THE ORIGIN OF VIOLENCE: DEVALUING THE OTHER
Chapter 29: THE NATURAL REPUGNANCE TO KILL
Chapter 30: DEHUMANIZING THE OTHER: MASSACRES AND GENOCIDES
Chapter 31: HAS WAR ALWAYS EXISTED?
Chapter 32: THE DECLINE OF VIOLENCE
Chapter 33: THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF ANIMALS: A MORAL ABERRATION
Chapter 34: BACKFIRE: EFFECTS OF THE MEAT INDUSTRY ON POVERTY, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH
Chapter 35: INSTITUTIONALIZED SELFISHNESS
Chapter 36: THE VIRTUES OF COOPERATION
Chapter 37: AN ENLIGHTENED EDUCATION
Chapter 38: FIGHTING INEQUALITY
Chapter 39: TOWARD A CARING ECONOMY
Chapter 40: VOLUNTARY, JOYOUS SIMPLICITY
Chapter 41: ALTRUISM FOR THE SAKE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
Chapter 42: SUSTAINABLE HARMONY
Chapter 43: LOCAL COMMITMENT, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
Conclusion: DARING ALTRUISM
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