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The Importance of Honesty in Altruism
I mean we've gone through well over 2000 years where nobody is considered an alternative to altruism and she has. She was insistent that it was honesty that she was more honest than other philosophers. And you have to be supremely intellectually honest to be willing to break with so many intellectual authorities on a topic like the morality of altruism. I wouldn't even say about Spinoza that he was identifying problems with altruism. He defended a theory that was more egoistic sounding than others in the period. But Nietzsche I know more about and I mean I'm going to advocate that at least some of us be kind of predatory egoists who sacrifice others to the self. Even there he
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