Homo economicus are all egoists, but why are there people at home and abroad who help others and s

Updated on society 2024-05-13
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    My explanation is absolutely correct! Sort of explain it like this:

    Your so-called "homo economicus" is still self-interested. However, we should note that this "benefit" has changed, that is, his purpose has changed. This principle is derived from Maslow's "Positivity Theory" (people do something because of a certain positivity, commonly known as "motivation") The Pyramid of Needs".

    The need for self-actualization.

    The need for social recognition (respect).

    The need for social relations (social).

    The need for safety.

    The basic (physical) needs of the body.

    In addition to the "need for self-actualization", the next four needs are all achievable. From the bottom to the top: the most basic thing a person needs is food, clothing, and shelter > and then he naturally hopes that this kind of basic can last for a long time > and then he needs to meet friends (no matter what the purpose, it can be entertainment, business, partners, etc.) and then he hopes that he will succeed in his career > finally realize his self-worth.

    The realization of self-worth should be explained in this way: after all the realization under it, the person will naturally continue to set new needs and goals for himself, so that life is meaningful. For example, Bilgaci, who may have successfully founded Microsoft at the fourth tier, will naturally aim to move up to the top five.

    He may be the richest man in the world at first, but when he is satisfied, he will naturally turn to other aspects, such as charity, politics, health, art, ......And so on until he can't work. And these are his personal desires. It must be said that no one can really complete the fifth layer, because the goals of the fifth level are constantly changing.

    Human nature is greedy, the difference is only in what it is.

    Of course, occasional compassion can happen occasionally, and it doesn't have to be rich enough to be at the level of the second level, that is, charity can also happen on the fourth level. The self-sacrificing person who saves others because of his kindness does not care for his own safety, but he is never really ready to sacrifice himself. It's usually because things are too sudden, and I don't have time to think about it.

    If he knew in advance that he would definitely die, I believe he would have been deterred, many facts can only show that this person is gambling on kindness) But generally no one will give away their life-saving materials to others, otherwise they will give up their lives, or he will give away life-saving things because he has no desire to live, and not because of how much others need these materials.

    However, there is nothing wrong with "self-interest". One of the important aspects of the market economy (capitalism) designed by Adam Smith is to motivate everyone, that is, to make everyone do "self-interested" things (provided that they are legal). And China is now also following this path (but deliberately saying that it has "Chinese characteristics").

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Homo economicus is an economic term that is only used to study the behavior of the market economy, and it is not necessarily appropriate to describe the social behavior of helping others.

    But if you broaden the scope of benefits and not limit them to material benefits, helping others is also a requirement of benefits, because you find happiness in doing good.

    Regardless of the concepts of "homo economicus" and "rational man", they can only be said to be an abstract summary of society by a certain discipline or school, and cannot be 100% accurate and complete, so you cannot say that because of the existence of homo economicus, there are no good deeds.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Ridiculous, who said that homo economicus is all egoists? According to your logical reasoning, everyone is an egoist. Your so-called broker is a businessman, right?

    Merchants, although they do not participate in production, they satisfy the needs of the people and transform the actual value of commodities into use value. It is a bridge between consumers and producers, and an indispensable part of modern society.

    The so-called good quality of helping others and sacrificing oneself to save others is common to all human beings, but some people bury this part of the quality, and even they don't know it.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Big brother, "homo economicus" is just an economic hypothesis, and you still bring it to life?

    In addition, a noble egoist will also help others, so that he does not feel uneasy in his heart, he will help.

    Man is also for himself.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Who said that homo economicus must be an egoist.

    The profession says nothing.

    What matters is the personality of the individual.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    1.Although people are agents, people are also social beings and are emotional.

    2.When people no longer worry about food and clothing, there will be a higher need, such as the need to be respected, and they can earn respect by doing good deeds.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    In fact, we cannot forget that the essence of the Homo economicus hypothesis is the basis of public choice theory, and Buchanan uses Homo economicus to explain that self-interested individuals transform self-interested personal choices into public choices through the process of democratic politics, and cannot talk about the homo economicus hypothesis without public choice theory.

    After Hawthorne's experiment, it was proved that in addition to self-interest, there are other factors such as organizational belonging, security, respect, and altruism, so that the later social man hypothesis was born.

    In fact, economic man and social man are completely not contradictory, and human society is only understood from two perspectives.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Egoism precedes altruism, people's self-interested thoughts precede altruistic thoughts, people give birth to altruism when they are good for themselves, they benefit themselves more, and they benefit society more for others.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    How?

    Is it because the effort is not rewarded?

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    People are born to be selfish, but selfishness should not be directed to others.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The fast-paced life and high-consumption living conditions make people have to be selfish.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Selfishness is the nature of human beings, as the saying goes, people do not destroy for themselves, everyone will have selfishness, but the size is different.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Because they are basically only children now, they generally don't think about others.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    People have selfish desires, but in today's material society, it is even more inflated.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    The pace of life in modern society is too fast, and I can't take care of it myself, so I still have the heart to think about others.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    People don't kill for themselves, no matter how big or small, no matter how important they are, only the people who love you the most will have no regrets! Don't be dreaming of heaven and man, like a child, talking about selflessness and making people laugh.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Because of the rules of the game, there is a limit to who makes beautiful women and good things, and people want to be good, unless there are infinite beauties and money.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    In an era when everything is unspoken, the disadvantaged have fallen again.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    Because telling the truth is risky, telling a lie can be very rewarding.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    The polarization of right and wrong has lost its basic rules.

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    You said egoist, can you not be selfish? That's not all selfish.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-20

    There are two kinds of egoists, and the understanding of those who recognize it and the rest of us is that there are two kinds of egoists, who recognize their respective roles, and both change dramatically.

  23. Anonymous users2024-01-19

    The upstairs doesn't have much to do with the problem... Sweat...

  24. Anonymous users2024-01-18

    Chinese this is a traditional virtue, Americans are human?

  25. Anonymous users2024-01-17

    Human beings are social animals, so there is competition and cooperation between human beings, so there is competition, but also altruism, that helping others is fun, and sacrificing oneself for others will never become obsolete.

  26. Anonymous users2024-01-16

    Man is not a solitary animal and needs help in all aspects of life. It's the joy of helping others that makes this collaboration more harmonious.

  27. Anonymous users2024-01-15

    Although altruistic morality adheres to selfless altruism and inspires people's enthusiasm for selfless dedication, it opposes the pursuit of all personal interests, abandons the principle of self-interest and simple self-interest, and demands all human behaviors with selfless altruism. Such.

    On the one hand, it infringes most seriously on everyone's desires and freedoms: it violates and denies everyone's desires and freedoms for all purposes; On the other hand, it is the slowest to advance the interests of society and everyone.

    Because it denies the purpose of self-interest and opposes all the pursuit of personal interests, it also blocks the most powerful source for people to promote the interests of society and others. In a word.

    Altruistic morality is the morality that gives everyone the least ratio of benefits and harms, and therefore the worst morality.

    On the contrary, egoistic morality negates, opposes selflessness, altruism, and self-sacrifice.

    And self-interest is not harmful to others is enshrined as the only principle to evaluate whether people's behavior is moral. Therefore, on the one hand, egoism infringes on everyone's desires and freedoms relatively slightly: it only violates and denies everyone's desires and freedoms that are harmful.

    On the other hand, it promotes the interests of the whole society and everyone quite rapidly, because it affirms self-interest and altruism, affirms all self-interest and does not harm others, and encourages all the pursuit of personal interests that are beneficial to society and others.

    It also opens up the most powerful source of promoting the interests of society and everyone. In short, self-interested morality is the morality that gives everyone a greater ratio of benefits and harms, and therefore is a better morality.

  28. Anonymous users2024-01-14

    Dear teachers and students:

    Hello! It's an honor to stand here, and the topic of my talk is Helping Others – Being a Good Little Citizen.

    Caring and considerate of others, when others are in urgent need, can take the initiative to give help and care enthusiastically, be anxious about people's urgency, help people's suffering, worry about people's worries, save people's dangers, and help others for happiness, which is a noble behavior in interpersonal communication.

    Helping others is based on common ideals and interests. During the world-famous 25,000-mile Long March, many soldiers gave up their only food, medicine, and even hope of survival to their comrades, while leaving the threat of hunger, suffering, and death to themselves. This is because the Red Army fighters realized the responsibility on their shoulders.

    Helping others at critical moments, yes, there were heroes in ancient times who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and in contemporary times, there was the emergence of Lei Feng's spirit. Look again at where we are. Our generation is the age of only children.

    Many of the students here are only children. Although the only children of our generation have the advantages of self-confidence, optimism and positivity. But it also exposes some shortcomings, such as selfishness, self-centeredness, and so on.

    It is not easy to correct the shortcomings of a group. However, advocating helping others and being enthusiastic about public welfare can well strengthen the spirit of self-reliance and cooperation of contemporary only children, and make up for the shortcomings of selfishness.

    We came from all the towns, we came to the same school, we came to the same class. We all share the same ideals. And you are happy to help others, saying that it is not big or small, and that it is not small.

    Walk into the classroom and close the door casually, keeping the cold wind out of the door. When you walk past the hygiene corner, pick up the scraps of paper that have fallen on the floor. When you pass by the podium, tidy up the messy podium.

    When you cross the street, pick up a fallen boy and comfort him not to cry. These seemingly trivial things are all manifestations of helping others.

    Dear students, when you are in trouble, do you crave help from others? You definitely will. In the same way, we need to help others when they are in trouble.

    Thankfully, there is now a boom in helping others. Helping the weak and the disabled, the Spring Bud Project, the Hope Project, and even many students have joined the Youth Volunteer Service Team, etc. All these made us pleasantly surprised to find that the spirit of Lei Feng not only did not disappear, but also flourished around us in various forms.

    Life itself is full of ups and downs. But the sentiment and concept of being a human being can be firmly grasped by oneself. Dear students, please don't hesitate to extend your hand of friendship, help others and have fun with it, the world will be more beautiful because of you!

    Some places such as:"We came from all the towns and villages"Wait, it may not be your location, so please modify it slightly. )

  29. Anonymous users2024-01-13

    When others are in need of help, if we can help them from the bottom of our hearts, not only will their problems be solved. I feel happy myself. This is really the embodiment of the wise saying "helping others is the foundation of happiness".

    One day I picked up a small bag on my way to school, I opened it and looked, oh my God! I had a dollar and a penny in it, and I thought I could use it to buy what I wanted and put it in my little bag ......Before I knew it, I had put this little bag away. After class that day, I saw on the small blackboard that a junior classmate picked up a mobile phone and handed it to the owner, and I thought to myself that he could secretly take the mobile phone back to his parents!

    I looked around again, and everyone else was talking about the little boy. Immediately, my face turned red and I quietly walked out of the crowd. I felt that I should return the money to the owner, and I was a little discouraged that I had not found it after a few days, but I mustered up the courage again, and one day later I saw my friend on the way home after learning English.

    I talked to her, and I brought it up, and she said to me, "I also lost a dollar and a penny and put it in a little bag. "I happily took out the one yuan and five dimes I wanted to spend from my bag and gave it back to her, she was very happy and I was very happy.

    We don't have to have a lot of money and power to help others, we need help from the heart.

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