Altruism. Does it exist and is it a true possibility in diaconal and social work?

This article focuses both on the theoretical analysis of altruism and on its empirical illustration on the individual level. The first part of the paper, the theoretical section, presents the core ideas of the altruism discussion in different fields as well as its historical turns in academia. The o...

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Main Author: Anne Birgitta Pessi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage 2017-04-01
Series:Diaconia
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Online Access:https://vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/diac.2017.8.1.69