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Within Christianity, desire is seen as something that can either lead a person towards God or away from him. Desire is not considered to be a bad thing in and of itself; rather, it is a powerful force within the human that, once submitted to the Lordship of Christ, can become a tool for good, for advancement, and for abundant living.
In this way reason and desire work together to determine what is a good object of desire. This resonates with desire in the chariots of Plato's Phaedrus, for in the Phaedrus the soul is guided by two horses, a dark horse of passion and a white horse of reason. Here passion and reason, as in Aristotle, are also together.
The majority of the book, notes Jacob Levy, [28] is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, how and when it is good or bad. Kama Sutra presents kama as an essential and joyful aspect of human existence.
Distress is an irrational contraction, or a fresh opinion that something bad is present, at which people think it right to be depressed. Fear (phobos) Fear is an irrational aversion, or avoidance of an expected danger. Lust (epithumia) Lust is an irrational desire, or pursuit of an expected good but in reality bad. Delight (hēdonē)
He taught that Adam's sin [a] is transmitted by concupiscence, or "hurtful desire", [7] [8] resulting in humanity becoming a massa damnāta (mass of perdition, condemned crowd), with much enfeebled, though not destroyed, freedom of will. [9] Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a ...
“In traditional sex, you’re expected to make your partner cum and then everybody feels good. In this case, you’re technically helping your partner orgasm, but it doesn’t feel that great ...
The terms "real good" and "right desire" cannot be defined apart from each other, and thus their definitions would contain some degree of circularity, but the stated self-evident truth indicates a meaning particular to the ideas sought to be understood, and it is (the moral cognitivist might claim) impossible to think the opposite without a ...
Those experiences and actions which increase the fetters of desire are bad, and those experiences and actions which tend to emancipate the mind from limiting desires are good." [ 48 ] It is through good actions, then, that the agent becomes free from selfish desires and achieves a state of well-being: "The good is the main link between ...