Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- General editor's preface -- Preface -- PART ONE Alien altruism -- CHAPTER 1 Explanations for altruism -- THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF NATURAL ALTRUISM -- THE RATIONALE FOR THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF NATURAL ALTRUISM -- THE IMPLAUSIBILITY OF NON-NATURAL ALTRUISM -- CHAPTER 2 Evidence of altruism -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCE BIAS AGAINST ALTRUISM -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCOVERY OF ALTRUISM -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROBLEMATIC OF ALTRUISM -- CHAPTER 3 The elusiveness of altruism -- THE METAPHORIC NATURE OF THE SELFISH GENE -- THE METAPHORIC NATURE OF ALTRUISM -- PART TWO Ideal altruism -- CHAPTER 4 Contract altruism -- MOTIVATIONS BEHIND SELF-INTEREST ETHICS -- MOTIVATIONS WITHIN SELF-INTEREST ETHICS -- MOTIVATIONS FOR ACCEPTING SELF-INTEREST ETHICS -- CHAPTER 5 Constructed altruism -- KANT'S ALTRUISM OF IMPARTIALITY -- RAWLS' POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO ALTRUISM -- NAGEL ON THE RATIONAL POSSIBILITY OF ALTRUISM -- CHAPTER 6 Collegial altruism -- DIRECT ALTRUISM -- CARE MORALITY AS DIRECT ALTRUISM -- LIMITATIONS OF DIRECT ALTRUISM -- PART THREE Real altruism -- CHAPTER 7 Acute altruism: agape -- THE DISPLACEMENT OF AGAPE BY EROS -- THE DISPLACEMENT OF AGAPE BY PHILIA -- THE DISPLACEMENT OF NYGREN'S AGAPE BY POST-ENLIGHTENMENT AGAPE -- THE INDISPENSABILITY OF ALTRUISTIC AGAPE -- CHAPTER 8 Absolute altruism -- THE REVOLUTION IN THEOLOGY -- SUSPICIONS OF DIVINE EGOISM -- THE PROCESS GOD AS ALTRUISTIC AND EGOISTIC -- CHAPTER 9 Actual altruism -- THE TRUISM OF ALTRUISM -- THE "ISM" OF ALTRUISM -- THE ALTER OF ALTRUISM -- TRUE ALTRUISM IS RELIGIOUS -- Select bibliography -- Index.