Primitive Passion…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau attributed not only to man’s innate faculties of freedom and perfectibility. When he was considering the primitive operations of the human soul, he found two natural principles prior to reason: the instinct of holding the man himself and piety which binds man to the other. The survival instinct is guided by the love of self. It is a natural feeling that impels man to preserve his own life and provide for their own welfare. That is, the love of self is a primitive passion which is to zeal for the very existence through the pursuit of livelihood.

According to Rousseau, there is no original perversity in the human heart. In the state of nature, man is free from addictions — the depravity of conflicts of interest arising from the social context. The only passion natural to man is the love of self that ensures the maintenance of life. This innate impulse caregiver concerning survival is satiated when basic needs are met. Moreover, unlike Thomas Hobbes insists that self-preservation implies the war of all against all, Rousseau claims that the natural man does not need to fight with his fellows to defend his life. Instead of natural ferocity, he preserves his life without harming others.  

Primitive passion is motivating feeling 

Romantic love in the early stage of a relationship is not an emotion, but a motivational state that encourages vital behaviors.

The sensation experienced when someone falls in love is not an emotion, it is a reward produced by ancient brain pathways that motivate us in a similar way when we eat and drink. During the initial stages of a relationship, we are drawn by the feeling. “The person that we love becomes a real purpose in our lives.” It is so good!

I am moved by passion and my primal instincts 

We often question in what are the differences between sex and passion, there are people who insist on separating them, and they say you cannot mix them with as the purest instinct. In fact, I could not understand well, what are the options that take us away from it, when we are facing a passion, because sex is embedded in it.

If we have to discuss the issue, we would be hours without reaching a common sense, there are moral customs, cultural behaviors, and different point of views.

Passion is something innate to human beings, like sex, it is a primal instinct and has accompanied us since we appeared on the face of the earth. Passion is found in antiquity, the most primordial mankind’s history and today turned into a sales phenomenon and trade. It is in movies, literature, day to day, moving crowds and helping us to create fantasies. 

Passion is an instinct in its purest state, either within the walls or under the sun, it is loaded or fueled by fears of the unknown,  by craving, by moral and immoral. It is the instinct of the archetype, which appears and it is unable to find limits, sometimes does not differentiate between beautiful and ugly to satisfy us, anything can, if instinct is uncontrollable, even more…

The passion is so utterly measures, uncontrolled, intemperate, sometimes absolutely a waste of time. Passion is the attraction, it is what involves sex, and makes us what we are: human beings.

If we were animals, we would have sex only for procreation, like any other being of the animal kingdom. Passion is the humanization of sex and it  gives us the taste, the sensibility of the touch, smell and visual, yet, it is capable of blinding and deafening, leaving any libertine, offender, immoral, immune and unpunished, drooling over each other’s bodies without pay attention to aesthetics, to common sense, the law and the moral and religious values. Passion is undoubtedly domesticated desire. It’s easy, just admit it! The passion that arouses the lust and the fantasy is inevitable, let’s admit it: Did you never feel the urge of jumping the fence, fall in love with someone else? Did you never feel an impossible crush on someone and fostered ideas and plans to have her/him in your arms? Who ever thought?

The human being does not have sex for sex, like any other animal, even being in an orgy, we choose with whom we will make sex, but the most satisfying sex is chosen, of course in my opinion with whom we love it is much better.

Passion is extremely sexual, overwhelming, and breathtaking; it is our power to make the human sex. Passion alone cannot be confused with love! ♥

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2 thoughts on “Primitive Passion…

  1. everything you wrote on passion is true and sensed, I mean no surprise because we know who wrote! If I had to talk about passion, I would add up something which seems very important to me….Passion is suffering…Both words have the same greek ethymology, “pathos”…Those that believe talk about Christ Passion ( crispation?sorry I could’nt help!)…And the pain caused by passion is sometimes stronger than the happiness it can make us feel…just think of a new passion, and the loved one is NOT with you…or just told you the story was over…Having never been crucified yet, I can’t pretend knowing what is the most painful of both, but I think pain on a cross lasts less long than love passion when love is broken…
    Talking about Rousseau, who remains a high star of school philosophy programs, at least in France, I don’t know elsewhere, I’ve always found funny that he mostly built his fame on his Education treaty (Emile), hence he never was bothered to forsake the 5 or 6 children he made to his housewife…Do what I say, don’t do what I do…He could have been a brilliant poitician…

    1. Yes, I agree with you, I wanted to add Thomas Hobbes and Descartes, but it would be so extense. I will probably write more on this topic, delving in the theme of suffering by passion.

      Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate it.

      Hugs from Brazil! ♥

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