Do your actions personify your self-centered or selfless nature? This egoism/altruism test will assess which side of the continuum you fall on. This test is made up of two types of questions ...

Having children led Elissa Strauss to explore what it means to care, and whether we can expand the care we have for our kids to others.

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Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic ...

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Altruism or impossible-ism ... Marsha Blackburn's juvenile cartoon and dish-breaking political ads make one wonder if she is to be taken seriously as a candidate. If Kamala Harris puts a ...

The initiative also has its origins in the unique circumstances of 2020. The philosophy of “effective altruism” was in ascendance, promoting clear-headed logic over sentiment in philanthropy ...

The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put ...

For Elon Musk, declining global fertility rates are "not just a crisis, but the crisis", said Bloomberg. In 2022, the multi-billionaire X and Tesla owner tweeted that "a collapsing birth rate is ...

The artwork of Mister Cartoon can be seen pretty much everywhere — tattooed on celebrities, exhibited in art galleries, airbrushed on cars, painted on public walls and printed on team jerseys.

This is an audio transcript of the The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast episode: ‘What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu’ Soumaya Keynes The effective altruism ...