Desire arises from an existential lack, a gaping hole that can never be filled.
Because joy and sadness as introduced at IIIp11s are passions, all of the desires arising from them or species of them are passive as well, that is, they are not desires which arise from a person's striving alone but only as a partial cause in combination with other, ultimately external causes.
At times, Xunzi suggests that the intellect can override the desires arising from the natural emotions, but it remains unclear as to how self-regarding motivations can become a love of virtue and the rites simply because the intellect approves of them.
On Watson's account, it seems that if anything is to do the work of identification, it is an agent's valuational system, which apparently can be plagued by opposing desires arising from an agent's motivational system, gumming up the works and causing agents to act unfreely or against their wills by virtue of acting contrary to what they judge it best to do.
Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?
It is a highly deceptive trap and because such attachment and desires arise from the mind, it is best to investigate there first.
Generally desires arise from positive emotions such as generosity, kindness, intelligence, compassion and so on, or negative emotions such as insecurity or neediness, fear, anger & frustration, envy, ill will, greed, ignorance, etc.
It also seems to be informed by our desire, arising I think from the extreme domesticity of our lives, to believe that any remaining hazards presented by the natural world are far more dangerous than they really are.
The essay drew a sharp response from Xiang Xiu, for whom desire arises naturally from the heart-mind.
When this illicit desire arises, there will be resistance from society but also from his habits.
No that upward surge is too insistent the typical desires and aptitudes arising from it have become too ineradicably implanted to permit of any lasting impairment in this land!
