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So be good for goodness' sake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

John Hartung
John Hartung
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 jhartung@downstate.edu http://hometown.aol.com/toexist/index.html
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Abstract

Altruism is traditionally encouraged by promoting a goal, for example, going to heaven. In contrast, Rachlin argues that altruistic behavior can be sufficiently reinforced by the abstract intrinsic reward that comes from maintaining an unbroken pattern of altruistic behavior. In my experience, there are very few people for whom this is true. For fellow atheists and anti-theists, I suggest an alternative.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 261 - 262
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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