Act of Generosity
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A Act of Generosity is a prosocial act of without expectation of reciprocity.
- Context:
- It can be measured by a Generosity Score Measure.
- It can be performed by a Generous Person, Generous Community, or Generous Nation.
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- Example(s):
- Donating a kidney to a stranger.
- Japanese pensioners who volunteered to ameliorate the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Humblebragged Act.
- an Act of Greed.
- See: Altruism, Self-Sacrifice, Kindness, Envy, Worried, Quid pro Quo, Good Deed, Individualism.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generosity Retrieved:2021-5-16.
- Generosity (also called largess) is the virtue of being liberal in giving, often as gifts. [1] Generosity is regarded as a virtue by various world religions, and is often celebrated in cultural and religious ceremonies. Scientific investigation into generosity has examined the effect of a number of scenarios and games on individuals' generosity, and potential links with neurochemicals such as oxytocin, and relationship with similar feelings, such as that of empathy.
- ↑ Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, 2005, p. 173 explains the translation difficulties and names generosity as the least bad translation of Greek eleutheriotes (Google Books)