On the Influence of Empathy on Altruism and Egoism
The article concerns the connection of notions of empathy in psychology or sympathy in philosophy - with modern natural-science understanding of altruism and egoism. It suggests a model of the mechanism of manifestation of altruism and egoism constructed on the base of wide psychological concept of altruistic and egoistic transfer. The assumed absence of direct re lation between empathy level and the manifestation of altruism or egoism is supported by the results of the experimental study of these properties in school and university students.