Philosophy of desire

In philosophy, desire has been identified as a philosophical problem since Antiquity. In Plato's The Republic, Socrates argues that individual desires must be postponed in the name of the higher ideal.

Within the teachings of Buddhism, craving is thought to be the cause of all suffering. By eliminating craving, a person can attain ultimate happiness, or Nirvana. While on the path to liberation, a practitioner is advised to "generate desire" for skillful ends.

History

Ancient Greece

In Aristotle's De Anima the soul is seen to be involved in motion, because animals desire things and in their desire, they acquire locomotion. Aristotle argued that desire is implicated in animal interactions and the propensity of animals to motion. But Aristotle acknowledges that desire cannot account for all purposive movement towards a goal. He brackets the problem by positing that perhaps reason, in conjunction with desire and by way of the imagination, makes it possible for one to apprehend an object of desire, to see it as desirable. In this way reason and desire work together to determine what is a good object of desire. This resonates with desire in the chariots of Plato's Phaedrus, for in the Phaedrus the soul is guided by two horses, a dark horse of passion and a white horse of reason. Here passion and reason, as in Aristotle, are also together. Socrates does not suggest the dark horse be done away with, since its passions make possible a movement towards the objects of desire, but he qualifies desire and places it in a relation to reason so that the object of desire can be discerned correctly, so that we may have the right desire. Aristotle distinguishes desire into appetition and volition.

Désiré (baritone)

Désiré (29 December 1823 – September 1873) was a French baritone, who is particularly remembered for creating many comic roles in the works of the French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach. Désiré was a stage name; the artist's real name was Amable Courtecuisse, but for most of his life he was generally known as Désiré.

Life and career

He was born in Lille, or a nearby village, and studied bassoon, singing, and declamation at the Lille Conservatory. His first appearances were at small theatres in Belgium and northern France beginning in 1845.

In 1847, he arrived at the Théâtre Montmartre in Paris where he met Hervé. He asked Hervé to provide him with a musical sketch (drawn from Cervantes' novel Don Quixote), in which the tall and thin Hervé as the Don was pitted against the short and plump Désiré as Sancho Pança. The sketch inspired what was later dubbed the first French operetta, Hervé's Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança, which premiered in 1848 at Adolphe Adam's Théâtre National at the Cirque Olympique, but with Joseph Kelm, instead of Désiré, as Sancho Pança.

Desire (Tom Scott album)

Desire is an album by jazz musician Tom Scott.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tom Scott; except where indicated

  • "Desire"
  • "Sure Enough" (Scott, Steve George, John Lang, Richard Page)
  • "The Only One"
  • "Stride" (Victor Feldman)
  • "Johnny B. Badd"
  • "Meet Somebody" (Ron Panvini, Leata Galloway)
  • "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney)
  • "Chunk O' Funk"
  • Personnel

  • Tom Scott - synthesizer, alto, tenor & soprano saxophone
  • Pete Christlieb - clarinet, saxophone
  • Victor Feldman - organ, electric piano, Fender Rhodes, Oberheim
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. - trombone
  • Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
  • Alex Brown - background vocals
  • Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
  • Howard "Buzz" Feiten - electric guitar
  • Chuck Findley - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Michael Fisher - percussion
  • Steve George - background vocals
  • Carmen Grillo - background vocals
  • Jerry Hey - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Jim Horn - flute, saxophone
  • Michael Landau - acoustic & electric guitar
  • Richard Page - background vocals
  • Stephanie Spruill - background vocals
  • Neil Stubenhaus - bass
  • Maxine Willard Waters - background vocals
  • .download

    The domain name download is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It was admitted in the expansion of the top-level domain initiative of ICANN. It is intended to be used by companies or individuals offering downloadable content globally.

    The domain launched in 2013-2014. Domain name registrations will be available from ICANN accredited registrars.

    Second-level subdomains, e.g. example.download, may be registered. It will also be possible to register an e-mail address of the form name@example.download.

    See also

  • Domain name
  • generic top-level domain
  • References

    External links

  • New ICANN's generic TLD scheme (ICANN) website
  • .download Application Details
  • .download Governance Council
  • ICANN's wiki

  • Download (disambiguation)

    Download is transferring a file to or from another computer.

    Download may refer to:

  • Download (band), a band with Cevin Key and Phil Western
  • "Download" (song), a 2009 song by rapper Lil' Kim
  • Download (TV series), an Australian television series
  • Download (game show), a 2000–2002 Australian children's game show for Nine Network
  • Download Festival, a British rock festival
  • Download.com, the world's largest Internet download directory website
  • Download: The True Story of the Internet, a documentary television series about Internet history
  • Downloaded (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 Battlestar Galactica Season 2 episode
  • Downloaded (film), a 2013 documentary film
  • File sharing, the uploading and downloading of files over a distributed peer network
  • Music download, the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local desktop computer
  • Download Festival

    Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, since 2003. It is the most popular British summer rock and heavy metal festival and has hosted some of the biggest names in rock and metal including Saxon, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Rammstein, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Muse, Motörhead, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Kiss, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Motley Crue, Journey, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Guns N' Roses. One innovation at the 2015 festival was the massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers Live Nation UK. RFID wristbands and facial recognition technology was used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database.

    History

    The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. The first Download Festival was created by Stuart Galbraith, Tom Pyke and Andy Copping in 2003 in the same location. Rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a two-day event, expanding to three days in 2005.

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