The Authority of Desire

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10695792
AutoresDennis W Stampe (autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen96
Número3
Páginas335
Fecha de publicación1987-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2185225
OpenAlexW2313300516
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas91

A ristotle said that the intellect itself moves nothing; not even I the thinker himself is moved by thought alone. But thinking which . . . aims at an end and is does issue in and rational motion. Such practical thought originates in the appetite, and such motions, therefore, begin in desire. (Hence choice is desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire . . . N.E. 1139b). But how is it possible for practical reasoning to begin in desire? That is perhaps the central question about practical reasoning. The central question about desire is the question how practical reasoning can begin in it.I

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