The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon

The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs

Thomas Dixon

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nonfiction history philosophy
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"Altruism" was coined by the French sociologist Auguste Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his 'cerebral theory' and as the central ideal of his atheistic "Religion of Humanity." In The Invention of Altruism, Thomas Dixon traces thi...

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