{"id":195,"date":"2019-10-09T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:33:42","slug":"is-altruism-good-by-ben-bayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/09\/is-altruism-good-by-ben-bayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Altruism Good? by Ben Bayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you\u2019ve heard of something called \u201ceffective altruism\u201d? It\u2019s a recent movement that encourages people to do research to figure out the best way to give away as much of their own money as possible, allegedly in order to help out as many people as possible. Now one wonders if calling it \u201ceffective altruism\u201d implies that altruism up until very recently hasn\u2019t been effective.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, what is altruism really, what\u2019s it all about, and what motivates it? Is it simply an expression of generosity and good will among men? Or is it motivated perhaps by something else? These are the questions that we need to ask and think about it if we\u2019re going to evaluate altruism, an idea that most people simply equate with the very idea of morality. Are they right to equate it? And if not, why would anyone challenge that equation?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Ben Bayer as he asks one of life&#8217;s big questions: Is altruism good?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you\u2019ve heard of something called \u201ceffective altruism\u201d? It\u2019s a recent movement that encourages people to do research to figure out the best way to give away as much of their own money as possible, allegedly in order to help out as many people as possible. Now one wonders if calling it \u201ceffective altruism\u201d implies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,467,508,13,37,510,66,509,15,511],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-altruism","tag-ben-bayer","tag-effective-altruism","tag-ethics","tag-morality","tag-motivation","tag-objectivism","tag-peter-singer","tag-selfishness","tag-selfless","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}