draliene t1_iyn3lva wrote on December 2, 2022 at 5:00 PM

Reply to comment by mementoTeHominemEsse in Selflessness and altruistic deeds are often signs of weakness or a lack of belief in one’s self and one’s own goals | Guy Elgat explores Nietzsche’s critique of selflessness by IAI_Admin

But then it isn’t an act of altruism or selflessness anymore, is it? You are not BEING selfless, you are preforming it.

mementoTeHominemEsse t1_iyn4j4o wrote on December 2, 2022 at 5:06 PM

Selflessness in the perfect philosophical sense your conceptualizing it doesn't exist. Everything we do has a selfish motive.

Selflessness however in the sense the article is talking about and we
talk about in day to day life is simply acting in a way that grants you
no non-moral benefits. If someone gives a beggar money an upon being asked why claim they simply wanted to see the beggar smile, we will still call that selflessness. That's simply the way the word has been embedded in our language.