Agnes Callard

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Elucidations · Episode 1: Agnes Callard discusses desire and satisfaction · 6 Jul 2009 podcast

But even happiness, like what if it's bad to be happy?

So it seems like where we end up is all you really want is goodness or the good, right?

And you don't really want anything leading up to that, because anything leading up to that might turn out to take you away from the good.

And insofar as it does, you didn't really want it.

So the eliminativist doesn't just eliminate your desire to get on this train.

He eliminates every particular desire that you have.

That might be right.

That might be how desire is.

It might be that we all only desire the good.

But that's at least a lot less appealing than it first looked.

Right?

So that was my attempt to show that the eliminativist's view is less appealing than he first appears.

So now let me do the same thing with the other view.

The other guy thinks your desire to get on the train was satisfied.

So he can say you d you really did have a desire to get on this train.

So unlike the eliminativist, he's not forced to eliminate that desire.

He has to import another desire, the desire to get to New York, to explain why you're not happy with the situation.

But he thinks that those are independent of one another.

So I'm gonna call him a separatist.

He thinks you have the desire to get on this train and the desire to get to New York, and he thinks that you have those two desires separately from one another so that the one can be satisfied while the other is frustrated.

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