Sentence examples for object of appetite from inspiring English sources
The tyrant is enslaved because he is ruled by an utterly unlimited appetite, which prompts in him appetitive desire whenever any chance object of appetite presents itself to his consideration.
… as soon as a person becomes an Object of appetite for another, all motives of moral relationship cease to function, because as an Object of appetite for another a person becomes a thing and can be treated and used as such by every one" (Kant Lectures on Ethics, 163).
He characteristically writes in the Lectures on Ethics that "sexual love makes of the loved person an Object of appetite; as soon as that appetite has been stilled, the person is cast aside as one casts away a lemon which has been sucked dry.
Sense appetite is not free because the senses provide only particulars as objects of appetite.
Exercise of sexuality within these morally problematic sexual contexts leads to the reduction of women (prostitutes and concubines) to men's objects of appetite.
Spending the same amount on food, an object of animal appetite, is somehow degrading.
Sasha felt herself contract around the object in a single yawn of appetite; she needed to hold the screwdriver, just for a minute.
Hobbes understands what is good, as the end of human action, to be "whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire," and evil to be "the object of his hate, and aversion," "there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves" (Leviathan, chapter 6).
Thus "X is good", means "I want X", a particularly crude kind of subjectivism that goes back to Hobbes ("whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire; that is it which he for his part calleth good", BM: §25).
Most also suffered a loss of appetite.
If the love object breaks off the relationship, the lover experiences signs of drug withdrawal, including protest, crying spells, lethargy, anxiety, insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of appetite or binge eating, irritability and loneliness.
