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Desire

Desires are states of mind that are expressed by terms like "wanting", "wishing", "longing" or "craving". A great variety of features are commonly associated with desires. They are seen as propositional attitudes towards conceivable states of affairs. They represent how an agent or organism wills things to be, unlike beliefs, which aim to represent how…

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Desire

Nodes135
Edges134
Triples336
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Texts · 47
Desire → Adam's Curse, All Things, Bed, Bram Stoker, Brontë's, Carol Ann Duffy's, Charlotte Brontë, Cholera, Civil War, Close, Dracula, Eliot, Forster's, Gabriel García Márquez, Gothic-themed Dracula, Gustave Flaubert, In, Jane Eyre, John Donne's, Lolita
related to Action, practical reasons and morality · 18
Desire → But, Desires, He, Humean, Immanuel Kant, Instead, It, Kantian, Legalität, Moralität, On, One, Peter Singer, Some, Such, The, These, This
related to Higher and lower · 18
Desire → An, Authentic, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, But, Christianity, Existentialists, Explicit, God, Higher, Hindu, Hinduism, In, John Stuart Mill's, Nishkam Karma, Noble Truth, The, This
related to Formation · 17
Desire → Aisha, An, As, Both, But, For, Instrumental, Intrinsic, It, On, So, Some, Something, Such, The, This, Without
related to Intrinsic and instrumental · 17
Desire → According, But, Constitutive, Desires, Driving, For, Haruto, He, Instrumental, Intrinsic, It, Pleasure, So, Something, The, They, Watching
related to Psychoanalysis · 16
Desire → As, Austrian, Even, French, Freud, Gilles Deleuze, Greek, He, Instead, Jacques Lacan, Lacan, Oedipus, Sigmund Freud, That, While, While Freud
related to Persons, personhood and higher-order desires · 15
Desire → According, An, Frankfurt, Harry Frankfurt, He, Higher-order, It, Many, Most, Not, On, Or, Personhood, There, They
related to Further reading · 14
Desire → Concept, Joel, Lexington Books, Marks, New Essays, Phenomenology, Philosophical Psychology, Skorin-Kapov, Speculation, Surprise, The Aesthetics, The Ways, Transaction Publishers, Wanting
related to Propositional desires and object-desires · 13
Desire → Arielle, Arielle's, But, But Louis's, Conditions, Louis, Object-desires, One, Propositional, Propositionalist, So, The, This
related to Films · 12
Desire → Also, Film, Gone, Hollywood's, Just, Like, Melodrama, Melodramatic, Rhett, Rhett Butler, Scarlett, Wind

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desires theories one example object something would pleasure also intrinsic instrumental features usually things agent various states actions propositional beliefs

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Desirecausesthe subject to have this desire0.90text
Desireis amore fundamental notion and that preferences are to be defined in terms of desires0.90text
Desireis aform of lack related to incompleteness or a lost object0.90text
Desireis ahuman appetite for a given object of attention0.90text
Desireis adriving force for both Scarlett and the hero0.90text
Desireis akey motivating influence on the narrative of the film0.90text
erotic desireinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
seduction are connected to fearinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
wrath by examining cases where people are worried about issues of impurityinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
sininstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
and shame.FilmsJust as desire is central to the written fiction genre of romanceinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text
it is the central theme of melodrama filmsinstance ofPhilippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions0.80text

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