While human desires could be perverse, such as malicious desires that would wreak havoc with the lives of other people, Hook's belief was that such perverse desires could not withstand the tests required for normative acceptance.
Without being able to appeal to an absolute intuitive exclusion of such malicious desires or of perverse policies that were motivated by these desires, Deweyan naturalism argued that such desires would not meet the criteria for acceptance as norms.
"I confess, I am malicious enough to desire that the world should see to how much better purpose the ladies travel than their lords; and that, whilst it is surfeited with Male-Travels, all in the same tone and stuffed with the same trifles; a lady has the skill to strike out a new path, and to embellish a worn-out subject, with variety of fresh and elegant entertainment," writes Astell.
Presumably, the growing secrecy is not motivated by anything malicious, but rather a desire to keep the population safe.
Yet since the start of this year, a cluster of new apps has spread rapidly by attempting exactly that, offering anonymous ways to share the secret stuff we'd never want linked to our names: the shameful confessions, private fears, suppressed desires and malicious gossip.
The duel of purposeful young ambition and and malicious aged recalcitrance cedes to a blindingly simple desire.
It is very different from malicious gossip, which might be driven by a desire to tarnish another's reputation or advance oneself.
The works were joined by the desire to expose viewers to the malicious underbelly of the wonderfully convenient Information Age.
As the Web becomes more and more common in Russia, we can expect more problems with Russian hackers, not necessarily because they are malicious, but because they have a mischievous and childlike desire to understand thoroughly how these systems work".
Or, your former friend may simply be irritated to think you still harbor a desire for friendship with them and may be provoked into spreading malicious gossip about you.
