Across the whole spectrum of human endeavors, there are helping relationships wherein some helpers (e.g., doctors, teachers, social workers, advisors, managers, or organizers) try to help their counterparts (e.g., patients, students, clients, workers, and so forth) to help themselves. But there is a fundamental “helping self-help conundrum” in the very idea of helpers giving external assistance to others to become more autonomous, i.e., to become independent of external assistance.
A Fundamental Conundrum in Human Affairs
February 5, 2025 by admin
Filed Under: Classical Liberalism, Development, Main Blog Tagged With: Autonomy, Helping self-help conundrum, Rapacious benevolence, social engineering