It seems that many choices are torned between the drive for pleasure and our reasoning.
For example, we may know that taking a plane will produced Co2 and contribute to climate change but we also tend to take plane anyway out of the pleasure we get from it (fast travel or reaching remote places). Similar behaviour can be seen about animal products consumption. A lot of indivduals in the west actually want to cut some of their consumption of animal products but in reality the pleasure individual get from their consumption is frequently taking over.
I would like to know what kind of studies/books are out these about this phenomenon. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Let me share the core references I read and cited with you as follows:
Article Achievement Orientations from Subjective Histories of Succes...
human's needs is unlimited. but, should utilize resourse based on reason.
Desires are not improvised, desires accumulate.
Then I heard a peasant poet from Cuba, my country. An immediate way of expressing, the accumulated tendency of desire.
The debates sung among the poets of the field, sometimes increase in tone when discussing issues in which there are disagreements.
That was precisely what they did: not agree with what comes first: reason or emotion.
The scientific distinctions on this complex subject, are analyzed with mastery in the book entitled: "The error of Descartes: emotion, reason and the human brain".
The author of this book is the neurologist António Damásio and it has an absolute and growing validity, although it was published for the first time in 1994.
Manuel Castell says, in his no less valuable book: "Communication and power", that people first feel and then think.
https://paisdospuntocero.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/07-comunicacic3b3n_y_poder_de_manuel_castells3.pdf
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