Humans Have a Balance of Cooperative and Egoistic Tendencies

... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

Notes:

"...human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself."

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 Where Angels Fear to Tread: A contribution from general sociology to human ethics
Periodicals>Journal Article:  Allee, Warder Clyde (1943), Where Angels Fear to Tread: A contribution from general sociology to human ethics, Science, vol 97, 1943, p.521, Retrieved on 2011-09-03
Folksonomies: ethics altruism


Schemas

17 MAY 2011

 Comparing Ourselves to Other Animals

Examples of authors referring to animals in nature for insights into human nature.
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