Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Is Altruism Possible?

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i think everybody naturally assumes that attributes was possible i think everyone naturally evaluates his own actions the actions of other people and recognizes that some of them altruistic and some of them are not altruistic and if he thinks that's whistle is important value tries to work to become more activists and so he evaluates other people as well and that's important practically the person is more altruistic so then you can trust him and you could kind of cooperation now sometimes you go through revolutions something that everybody actually assumes turns out to be wrong it does happen but how does rarely the best vast majority of the things that we all naturally sue are correct so one has to have a balanced mind one shouldn't be dogmatic and fanatic about it yeah it could turn out not to be right but boy you better show me you might have some really good reasons to think there's not so really good reasons to think that we're all vastly mistaken and thinking that altruism is a real reality so what we're going to do is take a look at the way in which people try to attack altruism and to show that it is really just a mirage and i'm going to have the two-stage discussion stage one i'm going to see whether they have good reason to think absolutely impossible i'm going to put the burger proof on them let them run with the ball show me your reasons for thinking that

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