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Desire: Desire is a strong feeling of wanting something. It is a complex emotion that is influenced by a variety of factors, including our physical needs, our social and cultural environment, and our personal experiences._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ivan Illich on Desire - Dictionary of Arguments
Morozov I 254 Desires/needs/necessity/Illich/Morozov: Illich's thesis: Needs and desires are fixed. We must make hard moral decisions to distance ourselves from them. However, the needs are a completely modern creation; we treat them as flexible (...) and believe that they can be identified (either by quantification or greater self-control). Thus, the "satisfaction of needs" project does not seem to us to be moral in any way. (Ivan Illich in an interview with the Canadian radio program CBC, 1987).(1) >Necessity, >Actions, >Preferences, >Behavior, >Culture, >Cultural Values, >Cultural Tradition, >Society. 1. David Cayley, Ivan Illich in Conversation (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1992), 166._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Illich, Ivan Morozov I Evgeny Morozov To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism New York 2014 |