Desire
Index
Site Description
Desire
(linked to sources)
Concept Description
This category overlaps with
Compassion
.
I tried to reserve
Desire
for what is sort of gotten at by
Buddha's Noble Truth 2
or the negative effects of compassion.
Dante put it
"too much or misplaced love"
Francis Bacon put it
"love doth much mischief"
Compassion
on the other and is getting at the more positive consquences of desire such as love and happiness.