ABSTRACT
We defend the appropriateness of ambivalence, understood as unresolved inconsistent desire, by arguing that inconsistent desires can be fitting and that it can be reasonable to fail to resolve such inconsistency. Our arguments are based on the idea that the good is inconsistent: that one and the same thing can be both good and bad. This undermines views on which consistency in desire and the resolution of such inconsistency are ideals to be pursued.
