How do reasons relate to desires? What one has a reason to do is not what deliberation could discover to fulfil a desire. Yet the ascription of a reason for action to an agent may well be relative to a mode of deliberation that limits the questions and options. And desire and goodness stand in an internal relation: we could not generally desire what is not good, and taken to be good. What is good, and one has a reason to realize, from occasion to occasion must be identified with a sensitivity to context. Even if there is something good in any brave act, the primary reason for acting bravely must be contextual and concrete. There may be nothing good even in an enjoyable activity, if it is bad, and one takes pleasure in what makes it bad. Reasons for action, like practical inferences and judgements, are creatures of contingency.
Keywords: deliberation, desire, good, context, pleasure