RK: In your excellent book with Weeden, The Hidden Agenda ..., you used the concept of extended self interest (I'm going by memory so I may have got the term wrong,) i.e., "self interest" included the interests of your kin and close social network(s) - here you seem to talk about a more narrow sense of self-interest - has your thinking on the matter changed?
Thanks to both Josh and you for your excellent writings.
Thanks for the comment and the kind words! No, my view is still the broad sense of self-interest. For this short piece, I didn't clarify that and perhaps I should have. But you are correct. I take self-interest to include more than just, say, your personal financial interests. I think the argument here stands under either view, but you're certainly right that I ought to have been clear about that. And thank you for reading!
RK: In your excellent book with Weeden, The Hidden Agenda ..., you used the concept of extended self interest (I'm going by memory so I may have got the term wrong,) i.e., "self interest" included the interests of your kin and close social network(s) - here you seem to talk about a more narrow sense of self-interest - has your thinking on the matter changed?
Thanks to both Josh and you for your excellent writings.
Thanks for the comment and the kind words! No, my view is still the broad sense of self-interest. For this short piece, I didn't clarify that and perhaps I should have. But you are correct. I take self-interest to include more than just, say, your personal financial interests. I think the argument here stands under either view, but you're certainly right that I ought to have been clear about that. And thank you for reading!