In absence of instruction I proceed with my plan.
I looked up
desire and got 544 hits. The first is a nice paper by Tim Schroeder (a Carneade?) which I read in diagonal and covers quite a range of aspects.
1 Desire To desire is to be in a particular state of mind. It is a state of mind familiar to everyone who has ever wanted to drink water or desired to know what has happened to an old friend, but its familiarity does not make it easy to give a
theory of desire. Controversy immediately breaks out when asking ...
2 Spinoza's Psychological Theory In Part III of his Ethics, "On the Origin and Nature of the Affects," Spinoza addresses two of the most serious challenges facing his thoroughgoing naturalism. First, he attempts to show that human beings ... desire, and Hobbes in his physiology uses the term to refer to the physical causes of human desire (Leviathan VI). So ‘conatus’ has both broad, physical and specifically human, psychological ...
3 Plotinus Plotinus (204/5 – 270 C.E.), is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle. The term ‘Neoplatonism’ ... desire. But in the highest life, the life of Intellect, where we find the highest form of desire, that desire is eternally satisfied by contemplation of the One through the entire array of Forms that ...
then the hits move away from what I imagine Florence's whishes.
Florence I am waiting for a word from you.