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Altruism, Grief, and Identity
Author(s) -
BAXTER DONALD L. M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2005.tb00532.x
Subject(s) - altruism (biology) , grief , irrational number , identity (music) , metaphysics , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , social psychology , epistemology , mathematics , psychotherapist , aesthetics , geometry
The divide between oneself and others has made altruism seem irrational to some thinkers, as Sidgwick points out. I use characterizations of grief, especially by St. Augustine, to question the divide, and use a composition‐as‐identity metaphysics of parts and wholes to make literal sense of those characterizations.