ABSTRACT
The author argued that wanting a thing logically implies wanting to get it, and, since wanting a thing is always wanting it for something, that having what one wants logically implies wanting to do something with it. The answer is that the wanting or desiring is an internal event that produces the doing. Aristotle, for example, speaks of the desire as an efficient cause that moves one's bodily parts. Similarly, modern philosophers from Hobbes on down to the present day, treat desire as some sort of psychological or physiological event that sparks bodily movements into being. If the relation were causal, the wanting to do would be, indeed it must be, describable independently of any reference to the doing. But it is logically essential to the wanting that it is the wanting to do something of the required sort with the thing one has. Hence the relation between the wanting to do and the doing cannot be a causal one.
