Aristotle used the term pathos for emotions and defined it as instant outward reaction to a particular input that is received from Environment. The Aristotle associates Pathe to soul and as such connected them to body. Human emotions can be in the form of fear, confidence, envy, anger, love, hatred etc. As a general rule emotions cannot be generally categorized as either virtues or vices. A particular emotional state is developed as a result of some event, action or situation. However certain types of emotions are always disastrous like envy.
We are progressing into era where minimal Human effort will be required in getting tasks executed by sudden advances in areas of Data sciences where most of work will be executed by way of Algorithms and Machines. Humans have a unique characteristic of showing Global consciousness. Human civilization has evolved from travelling on bare foot to travelling in aeroplanes, thus reducing the travel time by many folds. This has made our lifestyle go for a radical shift in terms of time management, where time management is controlled as per our requirements, however as a general rule of natural justice the faster we go the lesser time we are having because of intrinsic characteristics of human being for conquering more and more, which demonizes our instincts and makes us to go upto any extent to fulfil them.
There can be different factors that satisfy a human body at different stages of life from a candy to advanced smartphone, from a bicycle to Lamborghini, from a simple sunglass to expensive robes, from a few friends to some serious person. These all factors can be useful but at a particular instance of time. This settles to the argument how fast and upto what extent we can go, where can we find solace and peace. Humans have cultural and historical backgrounds associated with them in terms of evolution and have evolved from food gatherers to producing hybrid varieties of food. We have progressed much ahead because of the technological advancement in Science.
Humans in general have certain common needs and there are certain common characteristics that unite us. One of those typical characteristic of Humans is to think and think differently which makes him different from other living beings. However this thinking level varies from a person to person, how can we compare the thinking level of Albert Einstein with that of a common person, this thinking power of Humans have made them to dominate all other living organism. Humans have tasted highest level of success in terms of their living standards and other comforts. However does that mean our inclination should only be focussed on one thing of going for unparalleled and unseen advancements at any cost? The answer is a big ‘NO’. How can we follow this unconventional and uncanny developmental approach that we are going to keep even keeping Human emotions and ethics at bay?
Every generation of humans have an internal desire of expecting the best to be left by their ancestors. This thought process needs to be inculcated and humans in general should move with this spirit of making their coming generations to remember them as a race in which they wish to continue survive ,flourish and progress .
(Author is Assistant Professor, J&K Higher Education. Email: [email protected])
