Ambition is rationality

Ambition is the moral quality of a personemphasizing his desire to become a leader and achieve their goals. It does not matter what tasks are in the first place - to graduate with honors, to make a discovery, to take a certain public office or position in society. The main thing is that the path to perfection can be carried out by various methods. Either at the expense of study, work, or - disregard for the interests of others, intrigue, lies and betrayal. Therefore, “ambition” is just a modality that does not have a clearly defined ethical coloring. It can be both positive, demonstrating purposefulness, and negative, characterizing the love of power of a particular person.

Thus, there is no concept of "pureambition ”, the importance attached to it specific actions and deeds. They are due to the social environment and, if you like, moral pressure from her. In other words, ambition is a socially active category that forms an individual consciousness. It would seem that the example is completely “from another opera”: everyone watched the Star Wars series and remembers the story of the young Skywalker. The boy, and then the young man had pure intentions and sincere faith in his rightness, and most importantly - the desire to become the best. So if it were not for the loss of the mother, the death of his wife, then who knows how everything could turn around?

Everything is very simple:only a person has an action like creating values. The words themselves may not carry any meaning, but the choice of context means the choice of the appropriate sign - we proceed from our own interests and sometimes completely selfishly arrange the “pros” and “cons”. And we do not think that how we will arrange them depends on how we live our lives in the future.

However, if we recognize ambitionsocially active feeling, then you need to talk about personal mobility and the ability to move mountains on your way. And here, again, the problem arises: what sign to put? You can, of course, follow the path of the heroine of the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” or (many may disagree with me) of Boris Yeltsin of the second half of the 80s. Catherine was able to mobilize her own patience, “hide in a deep box” offense and humiliation, capitalize on her own knowledge and experience. And as a reward - the position of director of the factory.

In turn, Boris Yeltsin refusedprivileges to be an integral part of the "governing" and guiding systems, managed to defeat the fear of the people (even if conditionally), decapitalize the party capital and replace it with popular legitimacy. Almost love. Recall the level of its popularity in the last years of perestroika (1989-1991)!

But both of these examples are similar.Heroes sacrificed their previous status, their freedom and ambitions. And in both cases, ambition played. The meaning of the word here is sacrifice. You need to be able to donate one to get another. And thereby win compared with their opponents.

Now back to Skywalker.He accepted the sacrifice and became a victim of his own ambitions, turning into Darth Vader. Ambition is not just the prioritization, goals and objectives of one’s life. First of all, this ability to think rationally. That is the whole point.