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Full Idea
A second-order desire is a desire about what kind of desires you want to have. ....Some philosophers have argued that we should associate a person's second-order desires with her 'true self'.
Gist of Idea
Maybe a person's true self is their second-order desires
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 2 'What is')
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.35
A Reaction
Presumably the buck stops at these second-order desires, though we might request an account of their origin. 'What sort of person do I want to be?' looks like a third-order question. I don't even want to be a saint. Self is nothing to do with desires?