The Desire You Are Required to Get Rid of: A Functionalist Analysis of Desire in the Bhagavadgītā

@article{Framarin2006TheDY,
  title={The Desire You Are Required to Get Rid of: A Functionalist Analysis of Desire in the Bhagavadgītā},
  author={Christopher G. Framarin},
  journal={Philosophy East and West},
  year={2006},
  volume={56},
  pages={604 - 617}
}
Niskamakarma is generally understood nonliterally as action done without desire of a certain sort. It is argued here that all desires are prohibited by niskamakarma. Two objections are considered: 1 desire is a necessary condition of action, and 2 the Indian tradition as a whole accepts desire as a necessary condition of action. A distinction is drawn here between a goal and a desire, and it is argued that goals-not desires-are entailed by action, and that the Indian tradition accepts goals-not… 
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