Abstract:
The formal theory of rational choice as grounded in desire-satisfaction cannot account for the problem of such deformed desires as women's slavish desires. Traditional "informed desire" tests impose conditions of rationality, such as full information and absence of psychoses, but do not exclude deformed desires. I offer a Kantian-inspired addendum to these tests, according to which the very features of deformed desires render them irrational to adopt for an agent who appreciates her equal worth.
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Sandra Bartky has described repressive satisfactions, or, deformed desires, as those that
fasten us to the established order of domination, for the same
system which produces false needs also controls the conditions
under which such needs can be satisfied. "False needs," it might
be ventured, are needs which are produced through indoctrination,
psychological manipulation, and the denial of autonomy;......
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