Appearances of the Good - An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason

'We desire all and only those things we conceive to be good; we avoid what we conceive to be bad.' This slogan was once the standard view of the relationship between desire or motivation and rational evaluation. Many critics have rejected this scholastic formula as either trivial or wrong. It appears to be trivial if we just define the good as 'what we want', and wrong if we consider apparent conflicts between what we seem to want and what we seem to think is good.

The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

The Chorus Girl
Verotchka
My Life
At a Country House
A Father
On the Road
Rothschild's Fiddle
Ivan Matveyitch
Zinotchka
Bad Weather
A Gentleman Friend
A Trivial Incident