Poetics (Penguin Classics S.)

Aristotle, by contrast, tells us (in VI.1) that truths about right and wrong, and indeed all ‘practical truths’, i.e. all truths about what we should do, wouldn’t even exist without desire. It is desire (broadly construed), not reason, that gives us our goals and pushes us in any direction at all. ‘Thought on its own doesn’t move {or motivate} anyt

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