Lenses

Various key concepts are said to explain motivations and guide beliefs.

At least some maybe unfalsifiable, but the lens game is still fun and maybe even useful:

• reproduction (individual)
• power
• pleasure (individual — rational egoism)
• greater good/net aggregate utility
• fear of death ~ repression of thought of death / legacy
• family
• nation
• race
• class
• gender / patriarchy
• mental health / safety
• identity/meaning
• higher calling/spirituality
• individuality/authenticity
• (sense of) superiority/pride
• leading moral life
• work /great works
• art
• god
• money/profit/capitalistic/economics/socioeconomic
• zoological/ anthropological
• psychological / psychoanalytical
• Freud(ian)
• neurophysiological
• evolutionary ~ “progression”/propagation of the species
• Marx(ist)
• adaptationist
• physics
• fatalism