The hierarchy of drives

We have the desire to eat before we have the pleasure sensation or happiness that comes from eating, which lowers the value of the ethical theory of hedonism saying that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life, as well as lowering the Greek philosophical position (Aristotle) that happiness is a final end or goal that encompasses the totality of one’s life.

I see the hierarchy of drives roughly in this sequence:

First comes the primal material activation to evolve to Godhood

Then the material activation of desire

The biological activation to survival and reproduction and evolution

The biological activation to power

The biological activation to pleasure and happiness

The biological origin of social behavior.

This places religion at the beginning of drives with the material activation to evolve to Godhood and culminates in the biological origin of social behavior and the creation of sophisticated cultures that unconsciously or consciously serve the hierarchy of drives.

Theological materialism is built on this hierarchy of drives, as well as the political philosophy of ethnostates based in sociobiology.