ARE WE SELFISH? THE INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE AS META-REFLECTION OF THE CHALLENGE OF LOOKING AT OURSELVES

Abstract

This exercise is a methodological reflection on how the
interdisciplinary perspective contributes to the challenge
of studying the complexity of everyday life. As a
meta-reflection, at the same time that interdisciplinary
thinking is applied to an object of study, the challenges
faced by the researcher who wants to look in this way
are formulated. Through the complex problem of human
self-organization for the common good, this analysis is
built around one of the variables with the greatest incidence
in self-organization feasibility; the idea that we
humans are selfish. This with the aim of exploring how a
hegemonic idea like this arises and is sustained, without
phenomenological evidence to support it. Forcing us to
look at the human mind itself that interprets reality and
acts accordingly, including the mind of the person who
investigates it.