Richard Doczy
2007-07-31 15:38:47
It is good to be prudent, to take care of oneself but it isn’t automatic or guaranteed. Also, genuine benevolence or generosity exists aplenty. Human actions aren’t all motivated by just one “drive.” At times several reasons lie behind what we do and, yes, at times we just care about some other person and have nothing else in mind. All this effort to find a cause of what we do harks back to the scientism of the 16th century (Hobbes). Things, however, are more complicated and also more sensible.
