| Re: what's the difference between a need and a want? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: The StarmakerThe Starmaker Date: Aug 20, 2008 11:05
ZerkonX wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:07:50 -0700, sirblob2 wrote:
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>> actually im looking for references for this in ancient greek
>> philosophers. which ones of those clever chops had a nice go at it? or
>> was it ruskin?
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> King Lear..
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> O, reason not the need:
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> our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
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> Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as
> beast's:
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> Lear may have said (badly):
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> Reason not the need but the want.
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> Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as
> beast's, 'Tis want that makes Man's life above the dirt.
If I tell a girl, "I need you."
And I tell the same girl "I want you."...
that's two different things.
One is an undesirable control, and the other is a controled
determination.
If a guy puts a gun to your head and demands your money it's because he
needs it, not
because he wants it...otherwise, if he justed wanted your money he would
sell you something,
and you would take it out of your pocket and give it to him.
Obvisouly, the original poster *needed* to ask the question.
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