Sexual Desire: A Philosophical InvestigationA&C Black, 05.03.2006 - 448 Seiten A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS "He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK) When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid, serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love. |
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... facts . The man who feels pleasure , mistaking another's touch for the touch of his lover , is to be compared with the ... fact that it was moose or kangaroo . This does not automatically alter the physical pleasure of eating it ; on the ...
... fact of incarnation : I am here , my inmost self , in my face . The rest of my body , it says , my private parts , and therefore I myself , all are yours , if you will have it so . Being unguarded , like the naked body whose uncovering ...
... fact that , in the first case , the object is conceived as a person , in the second case as something essentially non - personal , and if there were no further difference that followed from this , then it would be arbitrary to ...
... fact present , not only in desire , but also in arousal , which is the surrounding circumstance of the sexual act . This is the feature of ' interpersonal intentionality ' . The problem that worried Plato does not exist : there is no ...
... fact , rooted in the life which we share with animals . I have argued that sexual arousal is in fact an interpersonal response , founded in an epistemic intentionality . Hence only people can experience arousal , and only people — or ...
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4 Desire | 59 |
5 The individual object | 94 |
6 Sexual phenomena | 138 |
7 The science of sex | 180 |
8 Love | 213 |
11 Sexual morality | 322 |
12 The politics of sex | 348 |
Epilogue | 362 |
Appendix 1 The first person | 364 |
Appendix 2 Intentionality | 377 |
Notes | 392 |
Index of Names | 419 |
Index of Subjects | 424 |