The Threefold Nature of Desire and Its Implications for Ethics and Theology

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/9/1201" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/9/1201</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel16091201" target="_blank" >10.3390/rel16091201</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Threefold Nature of Desire and Its Implications for Ethics and Theology

Original language description

The study distinguishes three principal forms of desire: bodily desires, desires for perfection, and desires entailed in value-responses. By distinguishing between the self-centered, acquisitive desires for perfection and the inherently self-transcending desires entailed in value-responses, the author lays the groundwork for his most original contributions. First, he argues that if the traditional concept of the good as an object of desire is a formal object of the desire for perfection and if cultivating desires entailed in value-responses is as important for one’s perfection as cultivating one’s desires for perfection, then the traditional notion of the good should be supplemented by the category of value as the important-initself. Second, he argues that distinguishing categorically between the desires for perfection and the desires entailed in value-responses opens up the possibility for a philosophical argument for attributing the latter desires to the absolutely perfect being. Here is the core of the argument: if desiring something necessarily means lacking something, then God cannot be both desiring and absolutely perfect; however, if it can be cogently argued that the desires entailed in value-responses are perfections rather than imperfections, then they can be attributed to an absolutely perfect being.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Religions

ISSN

2077-1444

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2025

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

001581228300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105017254264