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Among the motives, low and noble, high motives are distinguished. The low ones include everything related to the focus on oneself at the expense of others, to the high ones — related to the focus on helping others at one’s own expense. See →
Envy, greed, hatred are low motives… Readiness for self-sacrifice, altruism are not just high, but lofty motives at the level of spirituality.
So, low motives are those aimed at satisfying today’s needs of a person at the expense of his distant interests, high motives are concern for the perspective interests of a person and the readiness to suffer for this without today’s comfort. See →
Gluttony is a low motive. The desire to study when you want to run, and the willingness to play sports at an age when you really want to sit on the couch are high motives.
It is often thought that lofty motives are realized only for people who live by feelings, in contrast to reasonable people, whose mind warns against being carried away by beautiful motives and who live more mundanely. Apparently, this is a myth. See: What leads to high aspirations: feelings or reason?
What lies behind the sublime motives?
Selfishness in modern culture is considered a natural, but not the most beautiful human manifestation, therefore, people like to present many really selfish actions and manifestations as not at all selfish, but showing their sublime feelings and motives. First of all, it concerns love. Love is not always selfish, but in its mass variants behind love there are, first of all, selfish motives. See →