Human actions - Topic 50
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. - Aristotle
Human actions have never made much sense to me. They all claim to be loyal to one another, care for, or even love one another yet the moment one's back is turned they commit some of the most unforgivable crimes. Betrayal, deceit, lies, it's all the same. At times it's almost predictable. Eventually, they will all turn their backs on one another and if it hasn't happened yet it's only a matter of time until it does. It's the curse of the human race, but as for myself, I find it enjoyable. After all, the pain of those is many times my and my siblings gain. As for which of the seven causes are applicable, many times it's several or all.
Many of the seven causes are closely related or one leads to another. Nature is closely related to habit. Habits become one's nature and beyond that,a habit may become a desire and also one's passion. Passion is a curious thing. Without passions and desires, what fulfills a person? Nothing. It is the emotion that drives the human to do things he might not normally consider. An argument could be made that it drives myself and my siblings as well, but this is about human actions.
Passions may lead to compulsive actions or decisions. The events that happen in a single moment or decisions that must be made without much prior thought. Some decisions and events as of late that have spoiled plans that have been in motion for longer than any of them can imagine.
Chance perhaps is one of the most peculiar or at the very least, the hardest to predict. Nothing is by chance, not really. Everything has a plan whether it's revealed prior or after it occurs. Even to us. Oh, it's chance to the average human who doesn't know any better, but that's the point. They don't know any better. Like with chance, reason is one of the more peculiar causes of human action. While the others are closely related and often intertwined, reason stands alone. In passion, there is no reason. In the compulsive decision there is no reason.
No matter the cause, human actions will never make full sense to me. Being on this plane and taking this form may have given me an understanding I might not have known otherwise, but it still will be impossible to understand especially when the human himself tends to not understand though this is not surprising. He is, after all, human.
Human actions have never made much sense to me. They all claim to be loyal to one another, care for, or even love one another yet the moment one's back is turned they commit some of the most unforgivable crimes. Betrayal, deceit, lies, it's all the same. At times it's almost predictable. Eventually, they will all turn their backs on one another and if it hasn't happened yet it's only a matter of time until it does. It's the curse of the human race, but as for myself, I find it enjoyable. After all, the pain of those is many times my and my siblings gain. As for which of the seven causes are applicable, many times it's several or all.
Many of the seven causes are closely related or one leads to another. Nature is closely related to habit. Habits become one's nature and beyond that,a habit may become a desire and also one's passion. Passion is a curious thing. Without passions and desires, what fulfills a person? Nothing. It is the emotion that drives the human to do things he might not normally consider. An argument could be made that it drives myself and my siblings as well, but this is about human actions.
Passions may lead to compulsive actions or decisions. The events that happen in a single moment or decisions that must be made without much prior thought. Some decisions and events as of late that have spoiled plans that have been in motion for longer than any of them can imagine.
Chance perhaps is one of the most peculiar or at the very least, the hardest to predict. Nothing is by chance, not really. Everything has a plan whether it's revealed prior or after it occurs. Even to us. Oh, it's chance to the average human who doesn't know any better, but that's the point. They don't know any better. Like with chance, reason is one of the more peculiar causes of human action. While the others are closely related and often intertwined, reason stands alone. In passion, there is no reason. In the compulsive decision there is no reason.
No matter the cause, human actions will never make full sense to me. Being on this plane and taking this form may have given me an understanding I might not have known otherwise, but it still will be impossible to understand especially when the human himself tends to not understand though this is not surprising. He is, after all, human.