Ethics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...reason supersedes desire, so that it becomes rational to choose altruism over a narrowly defined self-interest. See also bioethics . Bibliography See H. Sidgwick, Outlines of the History of Ethics (1902); A. C. MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics...