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The 3 Components of Being
Metaphysical desire is focused on our identity, our ego, our spirit ... the core of what we are. This itself can be broken down into 3 components:
- Reality. We want our existence to be observed and noticed by others. What really matters is not the physical experience but what others think it's real.
- Persistence. We want our identities to last through time. We are obsessed with achieving some immortality.
- Self-sufficiency: Deals with having the power of the social realm to fulfil our thirsts. It's what Nietzsche calls "the will to power". It has a lot to do with domination over others.
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The Power of Metaphysical Desire
Not all our actions will be motivated by metaphysical desire, but out of the possible motivations ... it is the strongest. In commercial terms it means products that focus on it will command the most value.
It explains the success of branding, the celebrity culture and con...
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Mimesis is both the strongest and necessary authority for us to hold normative values. It more than any faculty decides what we think of beautiful, as good ... what laws we think of just or what sexual relationships we think of as legitimate or depraved. Even what we s...
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The 4 Qualities of Metaphysical Desires
- Malleability. They are highly dependent on our mediators. If I grew up with a Don Juan father I may seek superficial relationship.
- Power. The more we get motivated by it the more we loose our agency. The tulip buying mania, the 2001 dot...
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The 2 twin components of mimetic desire
Mimetic desire can be separated in:
- a desire to experience (physical desire)
- a desire to be (metaphysical desire). We chase objects for what they say about us on for the fullness of being that we expect them to confer upon us.
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Mimetism as the Strings of a Violin
Mimetism was not Rene Girard original idea. It can be traced to David Hume who observed one's actions reverberates to the rest like the strings of a violin. It describes humans as a social specie, prone to co-vibrations aka under the influence of other people's actions.
- Mimetism is a s...
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Normative Evolution, Prestige and Gods
The basic mimetic behaviour manifests in society in more meaningful ways:
- Through prestige. The respect, admiration, and high regard that is accorded to someone has less to do with the objective qualities of the person and more with the adherence to normative values.
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The Faulty logic of Object Acquisition
We crave objects because other people we look up are associated with those objects: a celebrity, a parent, a colleague etc... The faulty logic being that our acquisition of the object will grant us the same sense of being as our role-model.
Desire is not a straight line from subjec...
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The second part of the lecture on Girard. More in depth look at desires.
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The 3 Components of Intrinsic Motivation
- Autonomy: this is the desire to direct our own lives
- Mastery: this is the impulse to get better and better at something that matters
- Purpose: this is the longing to do what we do in the service of something larger than our...
The Discipline of Desire
The discipline of desire tells us what is, and is not, proper to want. This, in turn, derives from the fact that some things are in our power and others are not.
Two of the four Stoic virtues are pertinent to regulating desire:
- Courage (to face facts ...
The Pursuit Of Happiness And Well-Being
The Value Fulfillment Theory provides us with a sensible way to understand how ours and others lives could be better. How our choices influence our value fulfilment and helps us reflect on the question: What truly matters to us?
Our values have in-built motivation inside, along wi...
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