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The 17 pages that link to Desire, each with the reason it gives.

• EpicureanismNarrower topic: Classifying desires helps determine which pleasures are worth pursuing.

• Theory of mindRelated: Desires help explain behavior even when people hold the same beliefs.

• IntentionRelated: Desires can motivate intentions, though wanting an outcome is not yet deciding to act.

• Arthur SchopenhauerRelated: Individual striving expresses itself as desire, whose satisfaction gives only temporary relief.

• HopeRelated: A valued outcome supplies hope's desire, but wanting alone does not imply possibility.

• Moral motivationNarrower topic: Many theories explain motivation by appeal to desires that energize conduct.

• Practical reasonRelated: Desires can supply ends for deliberation, though their authority as reasons is disputed.

• Romantic dramaRelated: Desire motivates choices whose consequences drive the genre’s emotional conflicts.

• Eliminative materialismBroader topic: Desire completes the familiar belief–desire model of action explanation that the view challenges.

• EnvyNarrower topic: Envy includes wanting an advantage or quality that belongs to someone else.

• Folk psychologyRelated: Desires supply the goals that beliefs and intentions help explain.

• Love (emotion)Related: Desire may accompany love, though love does not always depend on it.

• On the SoulRelated: Desire helps explain why perception and thought can initiate animal movement.

• Vicente AleixandreRelated: Erotic longing drives much of his early poetry and connects bodies to nature.

• Dai ZhenRelated: Dai argued that human desires can support moral life when understood and ordered appropriately.

• Dimitar DimovRelated: Passion repeatedly collides with religious, social, and political constraints in his novels.

• Thomas TraherneRelated: Traherne examines how desire can move beyond possession toward delight in creation and God.