what is the difference between DESIRE and PURPOSE ???

Answer 1

desire is what we wish for and purpose is what we should live for

Answer 2

I believe that everyone has certain purposes in life, whether self-imposed or not, that they must work towards accomplishing to have a successful and happy life. You may have a desire to achieve your purpose, or you may not. You could desire things that are not good for you (like adultery, murder, drugs), things that will not help you achieve your purpose. Or, you could have a desire that is also a purpose; like maybe you desire someone and you feel your purpose in life is to make them happy. Or maybe you desire fame and feel your purpose in life is to be a well-recognized and skilled professional.
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Answer 3

Desire is a component of purpose. The object of desire is the targeted outcome of a purpose.

Answer 4

Desire is a condition, feeling, or emotion. Purpose involves intent and implies action.

Answer 5

From my own sense of contemporary language desire is the more immediate aim and purpose may include maintenance for an accomplished desire. Therefor in purpose is the possibility for negativity or the Judgment which contains defense, whereas purpose is positivity or of the Will and may not have negativity consciously conjoined with it.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm#25


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sp/osmorali.htm#OS504

(a) PURPOSE
§ 504

So far as the action comes into immediate touch with existence, my part in it is to this extent formal, that external existence is also independent of the agent. This externally can pervert his action and bring to light something else than lay in it. Now, though any alteration as such, which is set on foot by the subjects' action, is its deed, still the subject does not for that reason recognise it as its action, but only admits as its own that existence in the deed which lay in its knowledge and will, which was its purpose. Only for that does it hold itself responsible.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prmorali.htm#PR115

i Purpose & Responsibility
§ 115

The finitude of the subjective will in the immediacy of acting consists directly in this, that its action presupposes an external object with a complex environment. The deed sets up an alteration in this state of affairs confronting the will, and my will has responsibility in general for its deed in so far as the abstract predicate 'mine' belongs to the state of affairs so altered.

Remark: An event, a situation which has been produced, is a concrete external actuality which because of its concreteness has in it an indeterminable multiplicity of factors. Any and every single element which appears as the condition, ground, or cause of one such factor, and so has contributed its share to the event in question, may be looked upon as responsible for the event, or at least as sharing the responsibility for it. Hence, in the case of a complex event (e.g. the French Revolution) it is open to the abstract Understanding to choose which of an endless number of factors it will maintain to be responsible for it.

Addition: I am chargeable with what lay in my purpose and this is the most important point in connection with crime. But responsibility contains only the quite external judgement whether I have or have not done some thing. It does not follow that, because I am responsible, the thing done may be imputed to me.

Answer 6

Desire is born of emotion and purpose is born of reason.

Answer 7

Desire is something you truly want. And purpose is something you must do !

Answer 8

first desire, then purpose

Answer 9

They are both the same. Just like we distinguish Clark Kent from Superman when in actuallity they are the same essence. Similarly we distinguish desire and purpose when in actuality they are the same essence.

Answer 10

Desire is right, purpose can be wrongly defined by conscious reason.