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Thus, right desire cannot be defined properly, but a way to refer to its meaning may be found through a self-evident prescriptive truth. [17] That self-evident truth which the moral cognitivist claims to exist upon which all other prescriptive truths are ultimately based is: One ought to desire what is really good for one and nothing else.
If one can surmise that objet petit a is the object of desire, it is not the object towards which desire tends, but the cause of desire. For desire is not a relation to an object but a relation to a lack (manque). Then desire appears as a social construct since it is always constituted in a dialectical relationship.
"Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires." [2] Mimetic theory has two main parts - the desire itself, and the resulting scapegoating. Girard's idea proposes that all desire is merely an imitation of another's desire ...
Deleuze and Guattari oppose the Freudian conception of the unconscious as a representational "theater", instead favoring a productive "factory" model: desire is not an imaginary force based on lack, but a real, productive force. They describe the machinic nature of desire as a kind of "desiring-machine" that functions as a circuit breaker in a ...
This does not mean it is logically impossible to universalize, but that doing so leads to a state of affairs that no rational being would desire. Kant believed that morality is the objective law of reason : just as objective physical laws necessitate physical actions (e.g., apples fall down because of gravity ), objective rational laws ...
Even before the Time's Up movement, women in Hollywood have spoken out about being paid less than their male co-stars.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us." [ 22 ] The 29th of Epicurus' 40 Principal Doctrines (on the hierarchy of desires) states that desires may be natural and necessary, natural and unnecessary, or neither natural nor necessary ...
OPINION: Donna Brazile, who worked with Coretta Scott King to make MLK Day a federal holiday, makes sense of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy as President Biden leaves the White House and ...