ARBUS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kludge, Moral Hazard, Nepotism
4 Mar 2016
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Whatever it is that makes group work" work, those sort of prosocial dispositions are required - joseph heath. What we need to make group work" work: consideration good temperament respect trust flexibility. You have to give up your self interest. Self interested behaviour (doing what is good for us) social good. What makes us human/social is that we can put ourselves in another person"s shoes and feel their pain. Reason, principle, and/or conscience that makes us stop and think (something. Altruism as a constraint: altruism has only do so much. All persons cooperate without knowledge of this cooperation, as everyone cannot self make themselves. So we should act in our self interest; although, there is a free rider problem. But we must curb self-interest if cooperation is to be possible. Altruism curbs self interest sort of altruism can only do so much.
