“MUSIC TO THE EARS OF WEAKLINGS”: MORAL HYDRAULICS AND THE UNSEATING OF DESIRE

Abstract Psychological eudaimonism (PE) is the view that we are constituted by a desire to avoid the harmful. This entails that coming to see a prospective or actual object of pursuit as harmful to us will unseat our positive evaluative belief about (and co-instantiated desire for) that object (§I)....

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Main Authors: LOUISE REBECCA CHAPMAN, CONSTANTINE SANDIS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Series:Manuscrito
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