The Anatomy of Desire

2 Kinds of Motion

Vital Motion-are innate & automatic to all animals and they continue throughout life. They include the flow of blood, breathing, digestion, excretion, etc.

Voluntary Motion-are active & directed and may be known as endeavours or passions. They include walking, speaking, & the moving of the limbs. These beginnings of motions (which progress into directed actions) before they actually appear in walking/speaking,etc. are called endeavours

Ð'* Define the following terms: desire, love, aversion, hate

These endeavours when they are toward something which causes them is called an Appetite or DESIRE. And when the Endeavour is from ward something it is called an AVERSION. It is said that Ð''that which men desire they are said to LOVE' and Ð''that which men have aversion for is what they HATE'.

Ð'* Egoistic Hedonism the ethical theory that achieving one's own happiness is the proper goal of all conduct

Ð'* Absolutism versus relativism

Absolutism: the view that there is a universal standard of right & wrong. What is right & wrong does not depend on what individuals/societies believe.

Relativism: the view that there is no universal standard of right & wrong. What is right & wrong depends in some way on what individuals/societies believe.

Ð'* Of desires Ð'- some are natural and some arise from experience

Ð'* Define the term power

Power: For Foucault, power is not a law-like force that controls & prohibits. Instead, power is productive and repressive. Power doesn't just come from those in authority, it manifests itself in many different ways. It directs the transmission of knowledge and it discourses and shapes our concepts and self-image.

Ð'* Compare and contrast natural power and original power

Natural Power: one's mental and physical abilities

Instrumental Power: the power to acquire more power through objects or other people

Ð'* Procrustean mistake

Ð'* Procrustean: designed to produce strict conformity