(April 9, 2023 at 2:27 pm)WinterHold Wrote: One essential question is the following: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
By interest I mean warmth and love (love son/daughter so she love you back), give money to employee (so they work hard), give pleasure to a mate (so she/he pleasures you back....
Not all actions. Some may be based on pre-wired reaction.
But for those actions which results directly or indirectly from cognative decision making, I think it is possible to trace the decision to internal perceptions of self-interest.
Note internal perception of self-interest is not the same thing as common benchmarks used in external analytical evaluation of self-interest.