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Desire Formation and Human Good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2006

Richard Arneson
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In Wuthering Heights a man and a woman fall in love and their passion for each other wreaks havoc on several lives, theirs included. Long after his beloved is dead, Heathcliff’s life revolves entirely around his love for her. Frustrated by events, his grand romantic passion expresses itself in destructive spasms of antisocial behavior. Catherine, the object of this passion, marries another man on a whim, but describes her feelings for him as like superficial foliage, whereas ‘her love for Heathcliff resembles eternal rocks beneath.’ ‘I am Heathcliff,’ she declares, shortly before dying at the age of nineteen.

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Research Article
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 59: Preferences and Well-Being , December 2006 , pp. 9 - 32
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2006

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