(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)

[maru]

James Wynn wrote:

>The thing that bothers me about this is that is clumps all desires into the
>same bin. It gathers my (once a week or so) desire to run away from home
>leaving my wife and children to start a new life where no one knows me with
>my "desire" to do what I am convinced I "ought" to do--sometimes by reason,
>sometimes by instruction -- which is contrary to what I generally think of
>as my "desires".  This willy-nilly reductionism does not strike me as
>reasonable. (Of course Hume apparently deals with choices, not desires - so
>this has nothing to do with his theories).
>  
>
We cannot desire to be good, virtous people, with all the concomitant
restrictions that imposes?

~Maru
'That shalt have no desires above Virtue'
to mangle a quote.