3 essays on desire from the Consilium journal. Featuring Bertrand Russell, Zora Neale Hurston, Baruch Spinoza. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.
Three thinkers on wanting things for yourself. Russell says self-absorption is where misery begins. Hurston says claiming what you want is not indulgence. Spinoza says first understand the wanting.
Three thinkers on love versus attachment. Girard asks if desire spiked when threatened. Austen asks if you see them clearly. Schopenhauer says nature is partly responsible.
Three thinkers on self-sabotage. Freud says you're getting something from it. Wilde asks if the performance punishes the real self. Adler says the struggle became who you are.
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