Desire : the concept and its practical context / edited by Timo Airaksinen, Wojciech W. Gasparski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Airaksinen, Timo, 1947- editor.

Gasparski, Wojciech, editor.

Series:

Praxiology (New Brunswick, N.J.) ; v. 24.

Praxiology ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xvi, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2016]

Contents:

Part 1 Desire and Practice

Narratives of Desire / Timo Airaksinen Airaksinen, Timo 3

Reasons for Being Flexible: Desires, Intentions, and Plans / Piotr Makowski Makowski, Piotr 59

Desires of Others / Heta Aleksandra Gylling Gylling, Heta Aleksandra 79

Excused by Culture?: Sex, Desire, and Conflicts in the Courtrooms / Annamari Vitikainen Vitikainen, Annamari 97

Part 2 Desire and Moral Life

Absolute and Final Desire: Plato or Buddha, David Berman 117

Desire in Buddhism, "Child People" and "True Adults" / Margarita Kozhevnikova Kozhevnikova, Margarita 135

Freud on Desire and Debt / Jason M. Peck Peck, Jason M. 155

Structures of Desire in The Trial and Moby-Dick / J.D. Mininger Mininger, J.D. 169

What Role Do Emotions Play in Moral Disagreements? / Margit Sutrop Sutrop, Margit 183

Part 3 Business Ethics and Other Contexts

The Unappreciated Virtue of Frugality / Anna Lewicka-Strzalecka Lewicka-Strzalecka, Anna 203

The Desire to Take the Right Management Decisions: Can We Rely on Intuition? Experimental Praxiology Approach / Piotr Lukasz Jurkiewicz Jurkiewicz, Piotr Lukasz 215

The Need for a Design Education Strategy / Thorbjoern Mann Mann, Thorbjoern 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Desire.

ISBN:

9781412863131

1412863139

OCLC:

932172045