We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. -- altruism ; impatience ; intergenerational transfers …

Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational … disposition towards furthering other people's good. In this paper I dispute this claim by showing various ways in which altruism … blind spot that interferes with altruism's capacity to track moral demands. To resolve the moral dilemmas associated with …