Sentence examples for necessary desires from inspiring English sources

However, his distinction among groundless, natural, and necessary desires should make us suspicious that Epicurus is no common-sense hedonist.

A helpful scholiast (cf. Principal Doctrines XXIX) gives us some examples; necessary desires are ones that bring relief from unavoidable pain, such as drinking when thirsty — if we don't drink when we need replenishment, we will just get thirstier and thirstier, a painful experience.

Thomas, a nine-year veteran, said aloud what teams have privately claimed about Indianapolis for much of the season: that the Colts lack the necessary desire and killer instinct to win the big game.

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This city resembles a basic economic model since Socrates uses it in theorizing how a set of people could efficiently satisfy their necessary appetitive desires.

The New Yorker, August 2, 1947 P. 14 Incidental Intelligence: Sign in the window of a beauty shop in the Village: "No Appointment Necessary, if Desired".

Robert Moses and Austin Tobin would seem hopelessly overbearing in the current environment, in which community engagement and transparency are necessary and desired.

But they need a magic touch when it comes to new buildings, if and when these are necessary or desired - the kind of magic Eugenius Birch had at his Victorian fingertips.

But while the appetite for news and all the opinion and analysis that depend upon it has never been keener (or more necessary), the desire among readers to pay directly for that "content" online maintains a largely downward curve.

By F. W. Brawin and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, August 2, 1947 P. 14 Incidental Intelligence: Sign in the window of a beauty shop in the Village: "No Appointment Necessary, if Desired".

On the other hand, complete cancellation of the noise is neither necessary nor desired in some applications, like mobile communication.