The Many-Headed Beast
Young Heretics
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The Importance of Desire
There's the rational part of you that calculates, that thinks through what might be good to do. There is the desire that just wants what it wants, whether that's good or not. And now Socrates is identifying the fact that there's actually a third part, too, that it causes us to feel things,. It's not a sort of rational, cognitive, propositional thought. But it's the desires that can kind of lead us by the nose into doing the thing that we most immediately feel we want.
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