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This-essay is a7309211.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EMOTIONS AND DECISIONS 730921 Within the academic and the religious communities it is common to feel that if and only if one knows what is good---will one decide to do the good. The focus is thus often upon analysis of what constitutes goodness because, it is assumed, it will follow as a natural consequences that people will decide in favor of goodness---once they know what it is. Some may object, saying that academicians and religious leaders talk of the fallen nature of man, and of evil, and of other related topics. This pointing to reality should not be denied. The helpful question, however, is: What do academicians and religious leaders say through their decisions and actions? Talking is but one among the many channels of communication. Through decisions and actions a person may offer disparate messages which contradict their own verbal communications. The helpful question is: Do leaders acknowledge through their decisions and actions a mutual awareness of, and a mutual understanding of the sources of motivations which lead to others' decisions and actions? Do the academic policies of colleges and universities acknowledge what theologians and psychologists know of human nature? Do religious leaders lead in ways which acknowledge the realities which are pointed to in the text books and lectures of the sociologists, theologians, psychiatrists, physicists, astronomers, etc? Do these teachings have carry-over value? Any existentially aware self knows (not objectively) that decisions and action do not flow from knowledge, so much as from emotion and human relatedness, or lack of relatedness. Knowledge by itself does not generate motivation. Many know of the tragic consequences of the use of heroin, alcohol, sexuality, or excessive energy. Yet, many who know the tragic natural consequences of such use---systematically engage in the use which leads directly to the tragic consequences which they might honestly anticipate. To engage in being helpful it is essential to be mutually aware of the central role which emotional security within a fail-safe context plays in making possible creative motivation---leading to creative decisions and actions. If this reality and those who point to it are not accepted, the natural consequences will be tragic. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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