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- Title: Hungry Nature (Letters) (Letter to the Editor)
- Author : Matt McGuinees, Howard P. Kainz & Daniel J. Grimm
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 82 KB
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Somewhere in Plato's dialogues, Socrates says that someone's words were so persuasive that he nearly forgot who he was. I had a similar experience reading Paul Griffiths' "The Nature of Desire" (December 2009). He almost had me convinced that "no particular desire is natural," but what stopped me short was his disregard for the connection between particular desires and such elementary human needs as truth, beauty, goodness, justice, love, and, yes, happiness. To speak of desire apart from these needs of the heart is to fall into unreality and a level of abstraction that is nearly comical. Is it reasonable that Michelangelo's desire would have been fulfilled equally by eating a cheeseburger as by painting the Sistine Chapel? The violence of separating desire from elementary needs is intensified by Griffiths' reduction of desire to what appears to be instinct or impulsiveness. While impulses may be resisted or tempered, they cannot be reasoned with; desires can be (must be!) judged in the light of experience and those needs for truth and beauty. Confronted with a desire, I ask myself, "Is this what you really want?" or "Does this correspond to you?" These reflections are not the result of either programming or systematic catechesis; they are the result of being a man. When confronted with the desire of thirst, I have never found myself musing, "Hmm, Pabst Blue Ribbon or gasoline?"
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