Essays on Desire

The Shift of Augustine’s Faith In the Confessions of Saint Augustine Book VIII begins with an immediate praise and worship to God thanking him for allowing Augustine to be converted. Throughout the book we see a major shift of Augustine’s faith, where all doubt of…

Introduction Ethics for me is a value system which every person raises because of his conscience. I believe that ethics can be different for every person, because each person has its own value system. Although ethics are considered different, I believe that most people will…

I believe most citizens of the United States today have a understanding of civic virtue but do not have an enduring action of civic virtue. Civic virtue is the righteous behavior of a person’s involvement in their community. It is a very important part to…

I enjoy studying economics at both a local and global level. Prior to reading Inequality by Anthony Atkinson, I held the view that complete equality was the aim. However, since reading his book, I realize that economic inequality itself cannot be “solved” – there will…

According to Maynes (2016), the choice of decision that prompt consumer purchase is usually influenced by various economic factors. Thus, the desire to purchase different consumer goods, e.g., luxury goods, ordinary goods, normal goods, substitute and complement goods will vary depending on the price elasticity,…

Nanay is one of the criticizers of the belief and desire model theory introduced to us through the paper of Davidson. Davidson is one of the holders of the view that the belief and desire model is what mediates between sensory inputs and motor outputs….

Human beings have a natural tendency to seek out instant pleasure in order to fulfill their innate desires. Unfortunately, this aspired pleasure is often obtained through the process of temptation which in result, evokes a sense of guilt and shame within us. To indulge in…

Ingmar Bergman once said, “No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our soul.” Human beings are filled with repressed desire and an infinite sense of unconscious wanting, so much…

I grew up in a family of engineers; my great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father after that all chose civil engineering as their career path. This legacy ingrained in me an inexplainable natural inclination towards figuring out the mechanisms of complex structures and finding out…

If there was ever a book out there that I think should be the universal “Book of love” then this would be it. Apparently, most people have heard of it, or read this book at some point in their lives. Until recently I hadn’t heard…