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Extraordinary Self-Sacrifice [PDF]
, 2017 Abstract Theories of self-sacrifice ordinarily assume that actors will have larger fitness effects on recipients than on themselves. There are, however, conditions in which actors can pay costs that exceed the altruistic benefits they provide or the spiteful costs they impose.
D.B. Krupp
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Philosophia, 2009 Heidegger’s treatment of self-sacrifice has suffered neglect. In this paper, it is critically analysed and found wanting, and it is argued that for a proper understanding its historical location must be taken into account. The way he treats self-sacrifice presents a particular instance of many recurrent features in his thinking.
Mautner, Thomas
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Altruism, collective rationality, and extreme self-sacrifice
, 2018 Puzzlement about extreme self-sacrifice arises from an unarticulated assumption of psychological egoism, according to which people invariably act in their own self-interests.
A Colman (7742654), B Pulford (7750328)
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The development of self-sacrifice for group
, 2023 Self-sacrifice behavior is praised for its cost beyond an individual’s own interest. Self-sacrifice for the group can be observed in various social animals such as ants and bees. However, as human beings are socially connected yet driven by rational self-
Miaomiao Zhang
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The Role of Sacrifice in the Secular Age [PDF]
, 2021 The focus of this Special Issue is the analysis of the role played by sacrifice in complex secular and modern societies, in which, the concept of ‘emotional self-restriction' (Freud, 201; Elias, 2009), as a keystone of civilization, has collapsed. Today,
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Problems of application of historical-anthropological and microhistorical approaches on the example of reconstruction of the feats of signalers in the Battle of Stalingrad [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения, 2023 The article deals with the problems of applying the historical-anthropological and microhistorical approaches on the example of the exploits of signalmen in the Battle of Stalingrad. This article is a continuation of the author’s research.
Strelnikov, Maxim Alexandrovich
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Hitit Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023 There has been a controversy on whether hunger strikes and self-immolations in prisons are rationally adopted reactions or consequences of mental disorders that prisoners commonly develop.
Cansu Parlak
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dbkrupp/extraordinary-self-sacrifice: extraordinary-self-sacrifice-code
, 2021 This release provides the R code for the numeric examples and data figures in the paper "The Evolution of Extraordinary Self-Sacrifice" by Krupp and ...
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Le jaguar, sujet et objet du sacrifice maya
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2008 The jaguar, subject and object in Maya sacrifice. In Maya iconography, the role of the jaguar as a predator associated with all kinds of violence such as war, sacrifice, torture and self-sacrifice, is well-known.
Claude-François Baudez
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