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work_mufhtulxpzgsrkexngcwnlgadm	Elias L Khalil	What is altruism?	2004.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	832	80	58	The paper defines altruism as charity. The second section of the paper criticizes three rationalistic (what is called ''interactional'') theories of altruism, viz., the egoistic, egocentric, and The fourth section elaborates on three implications of altruism qua charity. On August 5, 1991, an Amish family of 10 members was traveling on a horsedrawn buggy on a north-central Ohio road. The act of charity by anonymous donors can, but with some difficulty, find an accommodation in the Homo economicus house of neoclassical economists. The difficulty originates from the fact that the tools of neoclassical economics have not been originally developed to account for anonymous donation. existing theories, heightened by the view of altruism qua charity – as illustrated in of the ramifications, discussed in the paper, of the view of altruism qua charity: out of altruism qua charity. 98 E.L. Khalil / Journal of Economic Psychology 25 (2004) 97–123	./cache/work_mufhtulxpzgsrkexngcwnlgadm.pdf	./txt/work_mufhtulxpzgsrkexngcwnlgadm.txt