Concept
Philosophy of desire
Overview
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For it is conscious of itself as the absolute and single reality, and, jealous of all else, exercises its power and rule in this reality as regards all else, since this desires to be considered as the determinate which is not Thought. The thought identical with itself, thus directs its negative powers towards the manifold determination of the theoretical and the practical, the truths of natural consciousness and the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Principles of self-love may, indeed, contain universal precepts of skill (how to find means to accomplish one's purpose), but in that case they are merely theoretical principles; * as, for example, how he who would like to eat bread should contrive a mill; but practical precepts founded on them can never be universal, for the determining principle of the desire is based on the feeling pleasure and pain, which can…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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It may be remarked that the general laws of association prevail among these more intricate states of mind, in the same manner as among the simpler ones. A desire, an emotion, an idea of the higher order of abstraction, even our judgments and volitions, when they have become habitual, are called up by association, according to precisely the same laws as our simple ideas.
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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Related ideas
- G. E. Moore
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hedonism
- Immanuel Kant
- John Stuart Mill
- Republic (Plato)
- Jacques Lacan
- Slavoj Žižek
- On the Soul
- Rhetoric (Aristotle)
- Stoicism
- Nirvana
- Marquis de Sade
- Plato
- Charles Fourier
- René Descartes
- Socrates
- Maurice Blanchot
- Sigmund Freud
- Spinoza's Ethics
- Aristotle
- Volition
- Buddhism
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Ethical egoism.