What's the difference between altruism and misanthropy?

Altruism


Definition:

  • (n.) Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Study 3, three forms of experimenter-guided mastery imagery reduced AIDS social anxiety and increased AIDS altruism.
  • (2) These included: (1) medical problems; (2) continuity of care; (3) impression of parents; (4) impression of the infant; (5) altruism; (6) nurses' self-esteem; and (7) impression of other staff.
  • (3) In the former case it is shown that even when Hamilton's conditions for the success of genetically determined altruism are met, genes that increase the transmission of altruism may not invade the population.
  • (4) "There is no such thing as altruism in consumption.
  • (5) On intuitive grounds, many have felt that Hamilton's Rule, br greater than c, should describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism and "green beard" genes.
  • (6) Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance and respect for non-conformity.
  • (7) These days, he gives slightly bitter talks , arguing that we're doing altruism all wrong.
  • (8) Downie holds that there is nothing to distinguish the doctor or lawyer from other occupations in terms of the criteria of self-interest and altruism.
  • (9) Biological and psychological research into the antecedents of altruism has considerable significance for those involved in the teaching or practice of medicine.
  • (10) Happiness-ecstacy and global altruism were exclusively recorded in cycloid psychosis.
  • (11) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
  • (12) After this evidence has been collected, moral issues of altruism and beneficence can be balanced against the possible detriment to both patient and health care provider, with the highest priority given to the patient's concerns.
  • (13) Historically, nurses were expected to act out of on obligation to care, taking on Caring more as an identity than as work, and expressing altruism without, thought of autonomy either at the bedside of in their profession.
  • (14) This eclipse is to be regretted not just because widescale altruism has the capacity to provide important social goods and correct injustices in distribution, but for intrinsic reasons as well.
  • (15) The factors which may facilitate or inhibit altruism in medical students and doctors are discussed.
  • (16) Two systems of altruism are considered: parent-to-offspring and sib-to-sib.
  • (17) Nonmathematical (but mathematically acceptable) models are now proposed for evolution of negative altruism in dual-determinant and of positive altruism in tri-determinant systems.
  • (18) The institute, in fact, turned against the wars on the grounds attempted nation-building and democracy-spreading were "misguided altruism" which did not advance US interests.
  • (19) The changes in the duty to protect have mitigated this dilemma, by moving the duty in a direction consistent with the evolutionary theory of altruism.
  • (20) This occurs because of nonrandom associations that develop between genes that cause altruism and those that affect female mating behavior.

Misanthropy


Definition:

  • (n.) Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (2) Maybe violent impulses now get pushed elsewhere, as evidenced by the apparent epidemic of teenage online bullying and the great firestorms of misanthropy that roar across Twitter.
  • (3) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
  • (4) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
  • (5) How I connected with my autistic son through video games Read more Since my boy got his diagnosis, I flinch every time I hear these assumptions about someone who is a bit geeky having Asperger’s (a name for people with high-functioning autism), or about someone’s misanthropy in the workplace meaning they are “on the spectrum”, or the idea that all autistic people can reel off complicated long division or recite Qantas flight schedules like Rain Man.
  • (6) Walter, in particular, whose fear of global over-population is tinged with misanthropy, gives solitude his best shot.
  • (7) Criterion measures of loneliness, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, locus of control, tendency to dissimulate, and measures of relationship with parents, peers, and academic achievement were obtained.
  • (8) Ihave lived in Britain long enough to know that enthusiasm and cheerleading will never get you much credibility here – deprecation, misanthropy and a dash of inverse snobbery are the far cooler attitudes to adopt – so I apologise for the upcoming expression of total and unabashed positivity: there are so many brilliant films around at the moment.
  • (9) The director's misanthropy and pessimism are already baked in: "Gentlemen of the court," says Kirk Douglas, in a line that could plausibly recur in any subsequent Kubrick movie, "there are times when I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race, and this is one of them."
  • (10) Twain outlived his adored wife and three of his four children, which might put his supposed misanthropy and bitterness at the end of his life in perspective.
  • (11) "USE WELL THY FREEDOM" reads a wall engraving at Patty's daughter's university, but few people do use it well and the cost of failure is destructive: "The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage."
  • (12) Yanis Varoufakis describes it as “a manual for emancipation by means of the only weapon we have against orchestrated misanthropy: constructive disobedience”.
  • (13) This study tested the hypotheses that perceptions of childhood dissatisfaction with parents are associated with higher scores on measures of intensity and chronicity of loneliness, anxiety, neuroticism, psychoticism, misanthropy, and external locus of control and lower scores on measures of self-esteem and sociability.