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%FOR WHAT SATISFACTION/REASON 841204
Logically oriented people are not likely to accept
personal satisfaction as an acceptable reason for any
course of action. Their satisfaction is sought in
logical consistency---to which they point as the reason
for their course of action: without acknowledging the
importance to them of the satisfaction which they derive
from being logically consistent. To be logically
consistent and be satisfied with themselves---they must
be unaware of the primary role which their own
satisfaction plays in motivating them to be logically
consistent. They can not point to their own
satisfaction without embarrassment. They feel
compelled to point to aspects of reason and logic---as
the real justification for their own reasonable and
logical behavior. They are alienated from their own
feelings.
A source of motivation is evil if it generates the
motivation to deny the alienation which flows from
honoring the motivation without qualification. The
motivation to be thoroughly logical is evil---to the
extent that it motivates people to deny the alien-
ation which flows from honoring the motivation to be
thoroughly logical. The motivation to satisfy one's
self without limit is evil---also to the extent that
it motivates people to deny the alienation which flows
from the motivation to satisfy one's self without
limit. Motivations are evil---to the extent to which
they undermine personal and communal integrity; e.g.,
through alienation.
A collection of people can not be an integrated
community if they are not free to be open and honest with
each other regarding their motivations and satisfactions.
They can not be mutually participate in the making of
informed wise decisions---if they must be ignorant of
their own and others satisfactions and motivations. Ideals
which undermine the freedom to be open and honest need
to be critically examined; e.g., the ideal to always be
objective, logical, quantitative, analytic, calculative,
systematic, scientific, etc. As carried to extremes in
science graduate education programs---such ideals are
evil.
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