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In ''[[A Treatise on Human Nature]]'', [[David Hume]] suggests that reason is subject to passion. Motion is put into effect by desire, passions, and inclinations. It is desire, along with belief, that motivates action. [[Immanuel Kant]] establishes a relation between the beautiful and pleasure in ''[[Critique of Judgment]]''. He says "I can say of every representation that it is at least possible (as a cognition) it should be bound up with a pleasure. Of representation that I call pleasant I say that it actually excites pleasure in me. But the beautiful we think as having a necessary reference to satisfaction." Desire is found in the representation of the object.
[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] begins his exposition of desire in ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]'' with the assertion that "self-consciousness is the state of desire ({{lang-de|Begierde}}) in general." It is in the restless movement of the negative that desire removes the antithesis between itself and its object, "
Reading [[Maurice Blanchot]] in this regard, in his essay ''Sade's Reason'', the libertine is one
In his ''[[Principia Ethica]]'', British philosopher [[G. E. Moore]] argued that two theories of desire should be clearly distinguished. The [[hedonistic]] theory of [[John Stuart Mill]] states that pleasure is the sole object of all desire. Mill suggests that a desire for an object is caused by an idea of the possible pleasure that would result from the attainment of the object. The desire is fulfilled when this pleasure is achieved. On this view, the pleasure is the sole motivating factor of the desire. Moore proposes an alternative theory in which an actual pleasure is already present in the desire for the object and that the desire is then for that object and only indirectly for any pleasure that results from attaining it.
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