Selfishness: A Natural Tendency

Adam Smith thinks that this is not greedy or selfish, but a desire for social and economic empathy inspiring humanity. People will participate in social games to maximize empathy from others. When people are considered good for society, they will be recognized or sympathetic by the surrounding people. In other words, this kind of approval makes individuals feel worth. Smith thinks that the desire to get our wealth is not a greed but a natural tendency. He believes that this trend will develop the world and further promote humanity. In the theory of moral sentiment, Smith advocates the idea that wealth does not only increase wealth.

One of the biggest obstacles for scholars to judge whether humans and other animals are selfish is that they tend to use the term selfishism to refer to completely different phenomena. Those who take a different position on this issue often do useless discussions using the term selfishly in a completely different way, assuming that they are talking about the same thing. It is hardly achieved even if it is claimed that the definition of human friendly self centrality is the only effective definition. It is more constructive to admit that there is a different form of selfishness than checking the relationship between them. For this purpose I think that it is useful to distinguish it from a genetically selfish form and a selfish form that often confuses other forms - marking biosafety.

As shown in Figure 15.1, there are 8 possible relationships between selfish psychology and selfless psychology, biological and genetic forms. If the tendency to evolve is genetic egoism (or selflessness), it also has a general tendency to believe that it is also selfish (or not selfish) physically and psychologically. From a conceptual and theoretical point of view, we can understand this trend. Conceptually, nature regards selfishness as selfish. Explaining the same behavior as selfishism and selfless consciousness seems contradictory or inconsistent. In theory there are good reasons to expect that natural choices can produce correspondence between different forms of egoism. Because the most direct way for members of sex reproductive species to spread their genes is to maximize the number of offspring that they contribute to their descendants, biological and genetic selfish Expect a positive correlation between behaviors.

The problem is not selfishness, it is a natural and important driving force, but to re-use selfishness to serve contractors and restricted self. As we become increasingly aware of ourselves as all these examples, we begin redeveloping our natural selfish tendencies and start to serve the whole. First of all, we will give ourselves everything they serve and attract them by giving people around us the opportunity of love and service. We then include our family, friends, community, our country, our species, our planet, our view of our lives, the solar system, the galaxy, the whole universe, and the ultimate reality foundation I have expanded my self-awareness. There is nothing in our hands - our selfishness increases effectiveness