{"id":292,"date":"2011-02-28T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:35:03","slug":"pleasure-and-pain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/education-principles\/pleasure-and-pain-2","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure and Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PleasurePleasure and pain are the two forces through which our lives are managed.<\/strong> Our inherent Nature\u2014the desire to enjoy\u2014impels us to follow a predetermined behavioral formula: the desire to receive maximum pleasure for minimum effort. Hence, we are compelled to choose pleasure and flee from pain. In that, there is no difference between us and any other animal. <\/p>\n

Psychology recognizes the possibility of changing every person\u2019s priorities. We can be taught to perform different calculations of profitability. It is also possible to extol the future in the eyes of every person so that he or she will agree to experience present ordeals for future gain.<\/p>\n

For example, we are willing to make tremendous efforts in schooling to learn a trade that will yield high wages or a respectable position. It is all a question of profitability calculations. We calculate how much effort will bring us how much likely pleasures, and if we are left with a surplus of pleasure, we act to achieve it. This is how we are all built.<\/p>\n

The only difference between man and beast is that man can look forward to a future goal and agree to experience a certain measure of hardship and pain for a future reward. If we examine a specific individual, we will see that all actions stem from this kind of calculation, and that one, in fact, performs them involuntarily.<\/p>\n

Environmental Conditioning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although the desire to enjoy compels us to escape pain and choose pleasure, we are unable to choose even the kind<\/em> of pleasure we will want. This is because the decision as to what to enjoy is completely out of our hands, as it is affected by others\u2019 desires.<\/p>\n

Each person lives within an environment of unique laws and culture. Not only do these determine the rules of our behavior, but they also affect our attitudes toward every aspect of life.<\/p>\n

In truth, we do not choose our way of life, our fields of interest, our leisure activities, the food we eat, or the clothing fashions we follow. All these are chosen according to the whims and fancies of our surrounding society.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it is not necessarily the better<\/em> part of society that chooses, but rather the greater<\/em> part. In fact, we are chained by the manners and preferences of our societies, which have become our norms of behavior.<\/p>\n

Gaining society\u2019s appreciation is the motive for everything we do. Even when we want to be different, to do something that no one else has done before or buy something no one else has, or even retire from society and seclude ourselves, we do it to gain society\u2019s appreciation. Thoughts such as, \u201cWhat will they say about me?\u201d and \u201cWhat will they think about me?\u201d are the most important factors for us, though we tend to deny and suppress them. After all, admitting to them would seem to annul our \u201cselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

From all the above, where, if any, do we find free choice? To answer this question, we must first understand our own essence and see which elements comprise us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pleasure and pain are the two forces through which our lives are managed. Our inherent Nature\u2014the desire to enjoy\u2014impels us to follow a predetermined behavioral formula: the desire to receive maximum pleasure for minimum effort. Hence, we are compelled to choose pleasure and flee from pain. In that, there is no difference between us and any other animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}