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Author | : George Kaczender |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2000-08-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462815650 |
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An Unreasonable Notion of Desire is the story of Gabi Fodor, an émigré film director with a jaded view of Hollywood, who awakes one morning to realize that his romantic expectations of life, art and love have gone unfulfilled. While on a walk in Beverly Hills that morning, Gabi notices a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the love of his youth, Marika, and on an impulse, he follows her. He discovers that she is a psychiatrist named Cass Atwill and he arranges for an appointment. Although Gabi soon discovers that Cass is not interested in him, he has become obsessed with the idea that, through an affair with her, he can regain his lost youth, dreams and artistic inspiration.
Author | : George Kaczender |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780738824727 |
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Author | : Philip Sheldrake |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0814647170 |
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Befriending Our Desires portrays the intimate connection between desire and the spiritual journey. Philip Sheldrake explores the role of desire in relation to God, prayer, sexuality, making choices, and responding to change.
Author | : Allan Hazlett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2024-04-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198889844 |
Download The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that nothing really matters. However, if someone thinks that nothing matters--if they are a "nihilist about value"--then it seems that it is irrational for them to care about anything. It seems that nihilism about value mandates total indifference. This is the "problem of nihilism" Allan Hazlett addresses in The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism. Hazlett argues that the problem of nihilism arises because desire--and thus caring--is a species of evaluation that admits of irrationality. This contradicts the influential Humean view that desire does not admit of irrationality, which has a ready solution to the problem of nihilism: since desire does not admit of irrationality, it cannot be irrational to care about something that you believe does not matter. However, following G.E. Anscombe, Hazlett argues that desire has the same relationship to goodness as belief has to truth: just as truth is the accuracy condition for belief, goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This reveals desire as an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry, in the same way that belief is an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry. Desires can amount to knowledge (in the same way that beliefs can amount to knowledge) and, crucially for the problem of nihilism, desire admits of irrationality (in the same way that belief admits of irrationality). Nevertheless, although it is obviously irrational to believe something that you believe is not true, Hazlett argues that it is not irrational to desire something you believe is not good, despite the fact that goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This provides a solution to the problem of nihilism, and shows that nihilism about value can coherently be combined with the anti-Humean view that desire is a species of evaluation.
Author | : Edward Stein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2001-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0195142446 |
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In recent years, scientific research & popular opinion have favoured the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth, but Edward Stein argues that this may be wrong. This book offers an examination of contemporary thinking on this issue.
Author | : Alex Gregory |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192587501 |
Download Desire as Belief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A popular model of human action treats it as universally explicable by appeal to what we want. A related view evaluates our actions as rational or otherwise by appeal to what we want. However, these dominant views sit in tension with two other common sense ideas. First, that our normative beliefs — such as our beliefs about what we ought to do — sometimes explain our actions. Second, that those beliefs are crucial for determining whether our actions are rational. To try and resolve these tensions, this book defends 'desire-as-belief', the view that desires are just a special subset of our normative beliefs. This view entitles us to accept orthodox models of human motivation and rationality that explain those things with reference to desire, while also making room for our normative beliefs to play a role in those domains. This view also tells us to diverge from the orthodox view on which desires themselves can never be right or wrong. Rather, according to desire-as-belief, our desires can themselves be assessed for their accuracy, and they are wrong when they misrepresent normative features of the world. Hume says that it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of your finger, but he is wrong: it is foolish to have this preference, and this is so because this preference misrepresents the relative worth of these things. This book mounts an engaging and comprehensive defence of these ideas.
Author | : Timo Airaksinen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2019-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004410309 |
Download Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are discussed in terms of their metaphoric and metonymic features.
Author | : Thomas Hill Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Philosophy, British |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813217970 |
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Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas's account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy