Russell (1961: 534):
He comes next to a consideration of the passions. 'Endeavour' may be defined as a small beginning of motion; if towards something, it is desire, and if away from something it is aversion. Love is the same as desire, and hate is the same as aversion. We call a thing 'good' when it is an object of desire, and 'bad' when it is an object of aversion. … Will is nothing but the last appetite or aversion remaining in deliberation. That is to say, will is not something different from desire and aversion, but merely the strongest in a case of conflict. This is connected, obviously, with Hobbes' denial of free will.
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Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, desire and aversion are desiderative mental processes metaphorically reconstrued as things, whereas love and hate are emotive mental processes metaphorically reconstrued as things.
On the other hand, objects of desire or aversion are the phenomena of desiderative mental processes, and good and bad are emotive — not desiderative — qualities of projection (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 211).
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