This notion, Ixabert, always strikes me as a kind of impossible escape attempt. Maybe I'm missing something but...
You despise egoists and individualists, and are only concerned with True Self of Humanity, the whole (Does that mean you know what’s good for the whole?).
You don’t care about family, country, or anyone’s life… But this type of thinking is still all about what you care about, what you think is important, and what you think it’s right to care about.
You are not concerned with your happiness, and are not an egoist? That’s not what I'm getting. You, like everyone else, seem very concerned with your concerns. You want what you said you want; barring death, you can’t escape it. Even if these wants are 100% about helping humanity as a whole, they are still your wants, and, unless you choose an action without first feeling a motivation (randomly?), then you must find
some form of personal pleasure in them.
I am a communal being. I am a species-being, not an egoist
It seems to me we are all communal beings, none “an atomised particularity separated from the community”, and we all know it. Everyone I know is dearly concerned with their interrelationships.
I also don’t understand how we can fail to be our True Selves. We are what we are.
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Anyway, I agree with American in the what to live for department. I live for what I’m built to live for, like any other organism.
I live for my family, relationships, work, simple curiosity, a strong instinct to avoid death, and the many other sources of motivation humans are built to feel. Sure, many of those motivations are found in what I think is the good of humanity as a whole, but I’d be fooling myself to claim that my instances of selflessness were truly selfless. All of it is simply what this self does, as my part of the whole.
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