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When morality is reduced to the opposite of self-interest, however, the virtue hypothesis becomes paradoxical: In modern terms, the virtue hypothesis says that acting against your self-interest is in your self-interest.
Aaron Jinks
Wanting to do good to feel better about oneself instead of genuinely doing good for others. Damn.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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