Essays on Desire

“I said I quit”. A lot of people at some point of their lives wish they had said this, but not Sammy, the protagonist in John Updike’s “A&P”. Sammy is a 19-year-old cashier working at A&P. He is working as usual on a typical Thursday...

Desire can easily motivate or drive people to act in a specific manner, similarly as social norms or influences. Aside from the character within The Imperfectionist, Schopenhauer is known as a German philosopher who expressed an idea that “human action is directionless and that the...

I wish to study medicine because I have a love for the sciences and I believe I have the skills to succeed as a doctor. I wish to explore multiple branches of medicine within my studies at university to fully examine the choices of specialities....

As a child I spent a period of time in hospital where I witnessed the caring nature of the nurses on the ward, my heart first became set on becoming a children’s nurse at that time. The tireless and compassionate nature of the children’s nurses...

Throughout history, delayed desire has led to long effects on people, societies and regions.some of these desires include sugar, meat, and crust.When you picture your life with or without wars you will get to the point of analogizing food, nature, and natural disasters in your...

Who should name their desires? It could be anyone who wants to picture their “to be selves” or “to find their personal legends. ” They just need to unleash their imagination and have a vast mind, which requires no age, social standing, gender nor experience....

People believe that they are usually in control of their own behavior. But the only behavior that we are in control of are the ones we think of doing. Other behaviors or actions we make everyday are things that we are oblivious of. This is...

In this paper, I am going to give one of Bence Nanay’s critique of the belief desire model. I will further discuss extensively whether his perceptual based account has met the challenge he posed against the belief desire model by giving sufficient examples. I will...

Don’t try to keep those desires hidden. It’s always better to know what your desires are. Knowing is better than not knowing at all. Trying is better than not trying at all. Why should you not determine your desires? As Vincent Van Gogh quoted “What...

Curiosity is the desire to know or learn something. It occurs to us all the time as it is in human nature to want to be involved and know about things that is strange to us. When we are curious, we tend to turn to...