Not to complicate this higher philosophic level of human behavior explanation we’ll just note goal-making includes intellectual activities together with automation response area. Thus a motive is made of emotional and rational elements. The structure of these elements may act contrary to the standard animal inner world determinants. Actually we’re talking about homeostasis support and pleasure center stimulation. The typical response range could include some advice of the kind of the opponent processes theory: avoid pain even by rejecting pleasures that cause it. However, once we go out to the world around us with this quite simple set of principles, we face so-called social programs. Then we can deal with several types of serious corrections. First of all, it’s the idea of the common welfare when we are strongly recommended to control our selfish wishes (in many philosophical systems considered as natural) for the good of the whole social organism we live in. Moreover, if we speak of Europeans, many of us (believers or not) are under the influence of Christianity as a global ideological system. In our case, this spiritual paradigm brings to individuals’ minds a simple idea: we can never get a full satisfaction in this life, our existence here is just a test preparing us to the life hereafter. In other words, the point of the Christian doctrine is that not hedonism, but patience is the main imperative of life. The question “patience for the sake of what?” is often not answered properly. The belief in God becomes an arbitrator or a stabilizing factor to settle the complex relations of cogito with the internal and external worlds of a human. On the one hand, it gives a powerful support to our ego. On the other hand it removes the contradictions of the harmony searches.

 

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