Engelsberg, June 2022: Our desires are not our own, we do not have a deep true self, and it is not freedom that makes us true to ourselves, but truth that grants us real freedom.
Desire is ‘I want this’; envy is ‘why do I not have this (while someone else has it)?’. The difference is that desire is inevitable - we are desiring beings in quest of objects of desire - but the struggle against envy is more of a point of virtue ethics and interestingly calls to a third party as an arbiter of justice. Definitely worth an ‘Episode II’!
Thank you! Very thoughtful! However that is underlined through the whole text, I don't understand why desire and envy are not distinguished with less then a shade. Maybe to the next episode, hope so... Until the last about vanity.
Ah, very good point!
Desire is ‘I want this’; envy is ‘why do I not have this (while someone else has it)?’. The difference is that desire is inevitable - we are desiring beings in quest of objects of desire - but the struggle against envy is more of a point of virtue ethics and interestingly calls to a third party as an arbiter of justice. Definitely worth an ‘Episode II’!
Thank you! Very thoughtful! However that is underlined through the whole text, I don't understand why desire and envy are not distinguished with less then a shade. Maybe to the next episode, hope so... Until the last about vanity.