I started to think about desire for higher goods, like as high as you could go.

And I did that partly because the impression is that somehow there are higher goods,

and something about our relation to these higher goods is what orders or organizes things down below.

Things like choice of career, decision about families,

political decisions, various other things.

And so there's something, so it was sort of like,

what exactly is the longing for higher goods?

I thought.

And realized I did not know what to say about it exactly.

So I thought, I know I'll go to a really interesting Neo Aristotelian who wrote a whole book on that topic.

So I've been living in the phenomenology disguises for months.

Hegel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Because that book is his tracing out of a path of desire for higher good.

And it's a great breed.

It's completely mesmerizing.

Okay.

And one of the things about Hegel on this topic

is that he holds all of the sort of force and power that clings to an

English language term like desire, something that is fugitive if you're thinking about

propositional attitudes or something, but not so much if your life is being turned upside down by the sense that, no, no, maybe that's the right one over there.

She seems to like me.

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