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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acts of desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing human emotions, motivations, or behaviors related to longing or wanting something.
Example: "The novel explores the complex nature of human relationships through the lens of acts of desire that drive the characters' decisions."
Alternatives: "expressions of longing" or "manifestations of want".
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In addition to emotions, this class of feelings subsumes the acts of desire and will, upon which the field of ethics is based.
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Thus, with respect to action, there is only one power with two different acts, acts of conceiving and judging on the one hand, and acts of desiring (the good) and willing on the other.
They drive down a service road to embrace: two humans licking each other's bodies, each with one eye fixed to the windscreen, the rear view mirror, watching for the bright spark of a state trooper car in the distance; each knowing that their act of desire could lead to a beating or prison, even to death.
Willing, then, is a motion, and is merely the last act of desire or aversion in any process of deliberation.
But in the Avis ads, the piece of machinery is the object of desire (there is a hint of the human-cyborg union promised at the end of the first "Star Trek" movie), and the very act of desiring it constitutes infidelity.
Rather, from this perspective, it is the act of desiring that transgresses the order of nature, resulting in a plethora of desires pulling the mind in different directions, that is seen to be at the heart of the problem.
More especially, through this virtus ad movendum, which corresponds to the substantial form of the subject, the will is able to pass from the potency of desiring to the act of desiring, since it already "virtually" contains this act within itself.
I am interested in the act of desiring something that does not exist.
Van der Linden attributes the rebound to the difference between extrinsic motivation, where people are inspired to act out of desire for an external reward, and intrinsic motivation, in which they change their behavior based on personal conviction.
The act is stripped of desire, but also of frustration.
In fact, according to a meta-analysis conducted by Gallup, the act of recognizing desired behavior in employees increases the repetition of that desired behavior, which leads to increased productivity.
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