The 4 Qualities of Metaphysical Desires - Deepstash

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 dotcom crash etc.
  • Deceitful: We are oblivious that we are confusing an object for a state of being. 
  • Ungovernable: It is not ruled by reason. Reason becomes a spoke-person to our spirit. Not the source of action, but its justification.

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The second part of the lecture on Girard. More in depth look at desires.

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