Re: mukti / djica

["Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" <lcrocker@MERCURY.COLOSSUS.NET>]

> What exactly is the difference between mukti and djica? To make
> the comparison easier let me re-order their argument places thus:
>
> djica:    x3 is the purpose for which x1 wants that x2 happen.
> mukti:   x1 is the motive which drives x3 to make x2 happen.

I see two concepts here with a useful distinction, but they
do not include {djica}'s x3 place.  As I see it, desire is one's
emotional reaction to the event, whether or not one ever intends
to bring it about or is even capable of bringing it about.
Motive, on the other hand, is that which drives your will--i.e.,
your conscious choice--to actually perform some action, whether
or not one desires it emotionally.

So that's at least two distinctions in my mind: one can desire
any action or event, but one is only motivated to perform one's
own actions; the other distinction being conscious choice vs.
emotional reaction.  I don't have any idea what the "purpose" of
a desire might be, but I do understand the motive for a choice.
But even if one does posit a motive/reason/purpose for some
desire, I still think desire and will are distinct concepts.

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