Threefold Behaviors of Envy, Moderation, and Extravagance from the Systematic Viewpoint

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Associate Professor, Imam Hussein University

Abstract

Taking an inspiration from the systematic viewpoint, this research has studied the relationships of the threefold behaviors of envy, moderation, and extravagance with the environment. Based on the sources, the research results indicate that the closed system logic governs over envy and the envious, the open system of the negative closed loop logic over moderation and the moderate, and the open system of the open loop logic, and over extravagance and the extravagant. It means that the structure of envy and the envious behavior act in such ways that they lead the human open system toward more closed one through destroying interactions with other environmental elements. Since the principle of the positive entropy conservation impresses on the system, it proceeds toward chaos and destruction. Moderation in the personal and social life not only leads to the formation and the development of the open system, but also through concentrating on the criteria, it changes the open system into the open system of the negative closed loop. Consequently, since the threefold behaviors are regarded as systemic elements (weakness- strength), we can modify extravagance (weakness) toward moderation (strength) by adding the negative closed loop to the open system of the open loop. And from the other side, we can promote extravagance (weakness) to moderation by opening the closed system toward the environment and adding the negative feedback loop to the system

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