The Difference Between Generous and Helpful People

The dominant view now in social psychology is profoundly inconsistent with the picture of the moral agent that Aristotle endorsed I think. You might ask whether what explains the difference between people who are inclined to give money to beggars or help people who are in difficulty, and the people who aren't? Here's a question: Would you rather have people be helpful or not? If you'd rather they be helpful, turns out that having little nice things happen to them is a much better way of making them helpful than spending a huge amount of energy often unsuccessfully on improving their characters.