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Philosophical concept

Desire

Desire directs attention toward what is absent or appears good. Traditions differ in what they seek to correct, order, satisfy, or transform.

Works
287
Passages
8,677
Thinkers
47
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Desire directs attention toward what is absent or appears good. Traditions differ in what they seek to correct, order, satisfy, or transform.

Epicurus classifies desires, Epictetus redirects desire toward what is up to us, Plato examines its structure, and religious traditions give it other horizons. The passages make those operations comparable without conflating them.

Lexical variants: desir, désir, desire, cupido, επιθυμ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  25. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  27. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  30. OratorCicero · 0 passages