{"id":533,"date":"2009-03-09T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:44:15","slug":"benevolence-self-interest-self-love-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/benevolence-self-interest-self-love-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Benevolence, self-interest, self love and humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own self interest.\u00a0 We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.\u00a0 Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly on the benevolence of his fellow citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">Adam Smith &#8211; Wealth of Nations<\/p>\n<p>Is a failure to really understand our own self-interest, a lack of self-love, a causal factor in some of our most disadvantaged communities?  If yes, what to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/09\/an-imaginary-open-letter-to-those-who-would-engage-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some Barriers to Engagement\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/some-barriers-to-engagement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some Barriers to Engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Working In Community Development Today&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/working-in-community-development-today\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Working In Community Development Today&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own self interest.\u00a0 We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.\u00a0 Nobody but a beggar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,38,39,67,141,156,164,169,189],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-barriers-to-enterprise","tag-community-development","tag-community-engagement","tag-enterprise-coaching","tag-operations","tag-poverty-2","tag-professional-development","tag-psychology","tag-social-capital","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}