The moral of the gift |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;2. Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil;3. National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents, CNPq, Brazil;4. Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil;5. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King''s College, London, UK;6. Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Neuroradiology, LIM-44, Institute and Department of Radiology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;7. Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | The author analyses the gift as a moral phenomenon. Based on a research on gift-giving in family networks, the article shows that one cannot apply to the gift the moral rules normally based on duty. A “true” gift must be free not only from economic obligation but also from moral duty, and in some way from any obligation. It is as if something more than what the rules prescribe were essential to the gift, as defined by social agents. This is why one can define the ideal-type of gift as a positive debt system voluntarily maintained by its partners. |
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