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REINCARNATION as a beacon to FUTURE ( RF )
NATURE of EGOISM
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The sources of egoism are instincts, psychic heritage, received from biological ancestors, who would perish as the species if they weren't obtain them (or weren't retain) in the course of evolution. One, who was better (stronger, more cunning etc – it means more egoistic) than others, this one captured better territory, food and other advantages including election of the sex partner(s) – i.e. advantages in order to transfer these egoistical qualities to descendants.
Emotions, which stimulate egoistical behaviour,
• express – subjectively – both
•• aspiration to realize such advantages, and
•• satisfaction at their achievement,
• cause – objectively – perfection of the species, its improvement, fitness to environment,
and may be represented by the formula of the natural, primitive egoism:
I'm better than others and THEREFORE
| I have!
| (À) |
Nevertheless for a human, who lives, distinguishably from his biological ancestors, in artificial habitat of civilization, in collective and society, his thinking, reason (higher level of psyche) becomes the dominant instrument for survival. The importance of emotions remains but it drew back (in norm) to background.
Simultaneously the same civilization, after rising/beginning of property institution in its framework, makes it possible to change, distort the primordial essence of the À-emotion, to move the accents from the proper advantages of an individual (person) to a value of the property, which he possess. Correspondingly, the À-formula itself can be modified:
I'm better than others, BECOUSE
I'm better than others, BECOUSE
I'm better than others, BECOUSE
| I have something more valuable than others have
others have something less valuable than I have
only I have and no other
| (B)
(C)
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Such distortions – both primordial natural egoisms and corresponding senses and behavior tendencies – lead to specifically human vices. Prepotency of –
the B-emotion, striving for realization of situations, expressed by the B-formula, leads to avidity, avarice, money-grubbing, hoarding, "vulgar consumerism";
the C-emotion leads to envy (enviableness), cupidity, not so much (or not only!) to aspiration to increase the value of own property, but also to reduce the value of strange property; for instance, by means misappropriation or destruction of it; and at last
the D-emotion leads to the morbid jealousy, striving to press everything and everyone down under his own, leads to imperiousness.
Greed, envy, jealousy can be interpreted not only as the emotions reflecting aspiration to attain something but (and even more likely) as fear to not attain, to not receive the desirable, or to lose something, but that changes nothing in ethics plan.
The aspiration to live better others, and for this to be better than others, direct initially toward improvement of the species, increase its fitness, viability, survival ability – can become an end in itself and so, in the hypertrophy, absolute form can turn into
competition for competition itself
rick for rick itself
power for power itself
enmity for enmity itself, |
and in such a way may be carried up to an absurdity, up to an antagonism regarding the primordial direct, making harm to society, to the species of Homo Sapience, for such a striving maintains the rough, foul force to the detriment of subtle, lofty, specifically human traits and thier manifestations.
Patriotism, as collective egoism (chauvinism – not as unselfish love for own fatherland) – as well as the infantile egoism (my mother, my toy), we've inherited from phylogenetic ancestors. Predator egoistically/patriotically defends his hunt territory. Salmons patriotically return in that very stream, where they hatched from spawns, in order to leave posterity and to die just here.
Nevertheless, resemblance between people of different countries, peoples and nations is much more essential than differences between them (all the more between those of neighbour villages or streets). Unity of vital problems and of live sense unite them. Enmity, egoism do not promote the decision of these problems, more likely – on the contrary.
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