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Bret Hribar
Q1: Butler's theory of desire separates all desires into two groups, the desire for "self-love" and the desire for "particular affection", which are all other desires like hunger, sleep, or sex. "Self-love" is a person general desire for happiness, this, as Butler states is an internal desire, a desire for our own enjoyment and satisfaction. Butler separates this desire from the desire for "particular affections" because these are all external desires, the desire for objects around us that fulfill those desires. He says that these desires are not based on reason, but may follow from it. For example a person instinctively wants to eat or drink but may not know why he needs to eat or drink. Therefore that desire for food is not a conscious decision, "I should eat now because I need the energy to live," but rather it is an innate desire, "I want food because I am hungry."
His distinction separates all the desires into the reasoning section of the mind, that a particular......

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