Beschreibung:
Desire is a rich term meaning wish and want, willingness and relish, appetite and lust. This volume is an effort to analyse the concept of desire and its different practical contexts from a morally philosophic point of view. By analysing multiple definitions and studying underlying motivations, the authors offer a variety of explanations and interpretations.
One: Desire and Practice; Narratives of Desire; Reasons for Being Flexible: Desires, Intentions, and Plans; Desires of Others; Excused by Culture?: Sex, Desire, and Conflicts in the Courtrooms; Two: Desire and Moral Life; Absolute and Final Desire: Plato or Buddha; Desire in Buddhism, "Child People" and "True Adults"; Freud on Desire and Debt; Structures of Desire in The Trial and Moby-Dick; What Role Do Emotions Play in Moral Disagreements?; Three: Business Ethics and Other Contexts; The Unappreciated Virtue of Frugality; The Desire to Take the Right Management Decisions: Can We Rely on Intuition? Experimental Praxiology Approach; The Need for a Design Education Strategy