RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
August 6, 2012 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2012 at 1:12 pm by genkaus.)
(August 6, 2012 at 11:44 am)jonb Wrote:(August 6, 2012 at 9:17 am)genkaus Wrote: are biological, not emotional,
Is there any evidence for this distinction?
The absence of any necessary emotional attachments to biological needs.
(August 6, 2012 at 12:23 pm)whateverist Wrote: You are jumping from an assertion regarding what motivates an individual's behavior (i.e., their feelings) to an analysis of what that behavior serves (its biological needs). Therefore your remark has no bearing on mralstoner's assertion.
It would be surprising indeed if our feelings/emotions did not evolve to serve our biological needs. But there is a stark difference between acting in response to feelings and acting out of consideration of what is good for one.
I'm jumping from the assertion regarding what motivates an individual's behavior at its very foundation. Fulfillment of needs (biological or emotional) serve as motivations for an organism's behavior. And since an individual at its very foundation is a biological entity - those foundational values would be biological, not emotional. Your statement regarding emotions evolving to serve biological needs suggests that even you'd accept that any emotional needs are derivative, not foundational.
