Agnes Callard
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832 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
Agnes Callard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can say it was satisfied and you can say it wasn't satisfied.
So let's look at what it is to say that the desire wasn't satisfied.
Okay?
You might say, look, he didn't get what he wanted, right?
Because he only wanted to get on the train because he wanted to get to New York.
And so when he got on the train, he didn't get anything that he wanted.
He's not going to say to himself, Well, too bad it's not the train to New York, but at least I caught the train.
There's no at least about it.
There's nothing that he got that he wanted.
So his desire wasn't satisfied.
But now if we think what the philosopher thinks about satisfaction, namely that any time you desire something and that thing happens, your desire is satisfied, we're gonna be forced to say that he didn't really want to get on this train.
And maybe that's not the wrong thing to say.
Maybe what he we want to say is look.
What he really wanted wasn't to get on this train, but it was to get to New York.
That's what he really wanted.
Okay?
So that's one option.
One option is to say the desire wasn't satisfied, and it follows from that that he didn't really want to get on the train.
That's one picture.
Another picture is it was satisfied, okay?
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