Desire Quotes by Nomy Arpaly

Nomy Arpaly

“Externality” is a different phenomenon from akrasia and doesn’t always come with it. The set of desires and actions from which one feels alienated isn’t always the same as the set of desires and actions of which one disapproves. It has been pointed out that you can disapprove of something inside yourself but still experience it as yours (“damn it, here I go again!”). In addition, you can approve of something inside yourself but feel like it’s not yours (“when the emergency sirens went off, it was as if someone calmer and more reasonable took over and knew just what to do”).

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Nomy Arpaly

For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes – such as desiring what we desire to desire – will always be like being told, when you desperately want there to be a God, that yes, God exists, as God is simply the good within people.

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Nomy Arpaly

I don’t think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from the motives for an action – “whatever possessed me to do that?”. Note, however, that some people feel alienated from the white hairs that recently appeared on their heads – “who put them there?”, they might ask the mirror – but the white hairs are still theirs. Similarly, I might feel alienated from an action or a mental state because it does not fit with my visceral self – image.

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Nomy Arpaly

Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as “benevolence”. Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people’s wellbeing will do more for other people’s wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.

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Desire Quotes by Nomy Arpaly

For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes – such as desiring what we desire to desire – will always be like being told, when you desperately want there to be a God, that yes, God exists, as God is simply the good within people.

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