Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Desire

    idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Orexis · desire · desiring · epithumia

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    An appetitive movement toward the pleasant, distinguished from choice.

    Again, desire can run counter to choice, but not desire to desire.
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    Also a man of defective self-restraint acts from desire but not from choice;
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    For it is probably a mistake to say that acts caused by anger or by desire are involuntary.
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    LysisClassical · Greek

    The state of wanting what one lacks, proposed as the true cause of friendly feeling once the good/bad explanation is questioned.

    But now, it seems, we make out a different cause of loving and being loved.
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    So that those desires which are neither good nor bad will exist even when the bad things are abolished.
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    and we supposed, just then, that it was because of evil that what was neither good nor bad loved the good.
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