I generally agree. But it is not normal human behaviour, to think egoistic. Normal is empathic, feeling with others and support. Egoistic behaviour is trained.
You know the book "Humankind: a hopeful history"?
I generally agree. But it is not normal human behaviour, to think egoistic. Normal is empathic, feeling with others and support. Egoistic behaviour is trained.
You know the book "Humankind: a hopeful history"?
No, I don’t know. I will check it, thanks :)
I think that our homo sapiens nature is egoistic, but we as humanity want to believe in something bigger, in our exceptional role in the universe — and transition from egoism to empathy/altruism etc — is one of the steps
However, problems, like a war for instance — push us back to our root, to nature, to egoism.
So while we should try to act as we are all together here and we have a greater goal — it is totally justifiable when we try to save our own shit
For sure everyone needs stability to help someone.
But the egoist theory you describe sound like the theory of Thomas Hobbes. The book I referenced defaces this theory with a big wave of facts that contradict with this theory 180°