“Music to the Ears of Weaklings”: Moral Hydraulics and the Unseating of Desire

Abstract

Psychological eudaimonism (PE) is the view that we are constituted by a desire to avoid the harmful. This entails that coming to see a prospective or actual object of pursuit as harmful to us will unseat our positive evaluative belief about (and coinstantiated desire for) that object (§I). There is more than one way that such an 'unseating' of desire may be caused on an Music to the Ears of Weaklings 72