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The human behavior radically comes from emotions rather than reason.

Reason is just a boundary which creates self-restraint.

 

 

 

 The human behavior has been important matter since from ancient times. Many philosophers interested in explaining it and emergence of behavior psychology can be the representative proofs of the interest on it. How and why does it occur? People who are engaged in researching on this topic usually say that the human behavior comes from emotions and reason. Until now, no sophisticated scientific, psychological or philosophic theory has not been able to proven the answer because there is no way to look into the process of human mentality and human behavior accurately. However, I think the occurrence of human behavior can be definitely explained with human emotions and reason. To say in detail, human behavior is nearly subject to emotions radically rather than reason. There are some reasons to prove this idea.

 

 Before mentioning the reasons, in this essay, emotion is defined as a feeling such as happiness, love, fear, anger, or hatred, which can be caused by the situation that you are in or the people you are with and reason is defined as the mental powers concerned with thinking and forming conclusions and judgments logically according to the dictionary. Most existing materials relevant to this topic also say that the human behavior has more profound relationship with emotions rather than reason. An academical paper introduced two types of opinion about the relationship : One says that the human behavior occurs by emotions. The other says that the emotions come after the behavior. Thus, I thought that the emotions have complex effects on human behavior: Emotions which have effects on the process of human behavior are basically separated in two types. Before behaving, the emotion which causes the behavior is former emotion. After behaving, the emotion caused from the behavior before the end of the behavior is consequent emotion. Reason operates after the consequent emotion as a controlling or feedback system of behavior.

 

 The first reason why I think so is that emotions are the first response which induce one to behave in particular way toward your body state or surroundings. Think of your daily life. From getting up and eating to sleeping, most behaviors start very momentarily by the feeling of your body without reflection. It is because, emotions operate directly and primarily to influence on human before the operation of reason. Imagine your morning. Before getting up, sense of fullness that you slept enough or fear that you might get scolded later if you don't get up now come to you and make your eyes open. When you are working, if your boss set you a hard task, the excitement that you will be able to take a break after completing it or the fear that you might be scolded from the fierce boss make you do the work happily or reluctantly. In this way, the starting point of human behavior can be explained with emotions. In this part, the emotion is former emotion.

 

 In the next, human can control his or her behavior by reason(reflection) which comes after the start of the behavior. As I mentioned in second paragraph, once human starts to do something by the former emotion, they feel consequent emotion as an impression which comes from what you did. By the consequent emotion, you operate your reasoning system to control the behavior or save the memory as feedback. Suppose that you have a meal. After you overeat, you will think that overeating can make you unhealthy and fat, so you make your own conclusion that you will never overeat next time. Like this, a kind of system which estimates what you did and control your behavior is what reason do.

 

 Someone can say that not every behavior comes from emotions. They say, it is also true that some behaviors can come from reason or obligation. However, the opinion is overlooking that the primary step which causes behaviors which comes from obligation and reason is even emotions. For example of obligation, you can think of voluntary work. Before you start to do that, you would feel expectation that you will be proud of yourself through helping someone with the obligation. Also, for example of reason, you might reflect on something to plan before do that. However, because the reflection also comes from the fear that you might get damaged if you do not do well or expectation that you would get reward after completing that, the reasoning system operates. Namely, all of the start points of behaviors can be explained with emotions. This is not exclusion of reason or obligation.

 

 To sum up, emotions play a basic role to induce one to do in particular way. The reason which control one’s behavior comes after the start of behavior and the feeling(consequent emotion) toward the behavior. Someone can say that the behavior can come from other factors such as reason or obligation. However, although they have an effect on the start of behavior, emotions cannot be excluded in the process of start of the behavior everytime. Therefore, I think human behavior is nearly subject to emotions radically rather than reason.

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