'Acquisitiveness' must be clearly defined as a category, given the colloquial definition of it being the "desire to get things" seems tautological. Otherwise Ru

'Acquisitiveness' must be clearly defined as a category, given the colloquial definition of it being the "desire to get things" seems tautological. Otherwise Russel is failing to say anything more than, "humans are driven by four desires, one of which is the desire to have things". Although, I think it's somewhat absurd to have power and things as separate categories given that 'ownership' is a social construct where we agree that certain people get to have power over certain objects, and can thus exert power over anyone else that wishes to use them.