Is it best to live life according to...
1. your core values (defined as "what comes naturally to you"), or
2. "survival" and "success" based on the cultural parameters of your particular era and geographical location?
the problem: they seem to be mutually exclusive.
2007-02-14 08:02:37 · 3 answers · asked by melon_rose 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Are they always mutually exclusive? What comes naturally to some people may be just what they need to succeed/survive in their society. I think people thrive in the zone where they overlap.
I'm not necessarily one of those people though...
2007-02-14 08:20:11 · answer #1 · answered by Fraggle rawk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your core values determine what you are willing to do in order to survive and get your needs, not wants, met. When needs are defined separately from wants, and placed as the priority, the survival part doesn't conflict with core values.
Food, shelter, clothing, love, do not require hurting or competing with others. It is only the perception that competion provides these things better than cooperation that makes it seem as if they do. Cooperation provides everyone with their needs but maybe not the lexus they crave.
We crave things we don't need because we are looking outside ourselves for validation. "I'm great because I have more than you." This is especially true in capitalistic cultures. In truth it reveals a broken character and someone trying to distract the world from what they perceive as their inability to measure up. The social mask requires that we have more and do more than the person next to us.
2007-02-14 09:10:27 · answer #2 · answered by Dawnmarie K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using your definition of Core Values you are lead into the two options blending to some extent as people will naturally try and survive and succeed.
2007-02-14 08:21:38 · answer #3 · answered by stickmanBOB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋