Progress
Selfish desire to evolve only in man, whereas in all other parts of creation (Still, vegetative, animal) is unchanged. It is increasing desire to obtain new pleasures and finding ways to meet them and determine the level of civilization and all that we call a word "Progress." Due to the fact that we are constantly growing desire, humanity is moving forward. Selfishness develops along the time axis is gradually and continually: it increases quantitatively, and with the growth becomes qualitatively different desires. Macro-anthropology shared by the entire complex of human desires into five levels, each of which develops is a kind of pleasure: 1. primary desire – physical (food, shelter, procreation), 2. desire for wealth, 3.
the desire for honor, power and glory; 4. thirst for knowledge, 5. spiritual level – the desire to comprehend the meaning of life, the concept of creation. These levels are consistently appear in person for thousands of years to form stage of human development. Primary desires are also called "animal desires", as they are inherent and animals.
Even in isolation, a person experiences hunger and sexual desire. Desire wealth, power and knowledge – it is "human desires", as there are under the influence of social environment, and to meet them one must be with their own kind, that allows you to create classes and various hierarchical structure. In light of the concept review of such areas of human activity, such as culture, education, science and technology, leads us to conclude that it is developing in a person selfishness spawned all of our ideas, inventions and innovations.
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