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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... implies : in addition to purpose and knowledge we have experiences , values , emotions and religious belief . These too dictate their own conceptual trajectories , their separate attempts to order the world as an object of our interests ...
... implies that my consciousness is also a form of representation : my consciousness shows me a world , and also places me in relation to it . But not all forms of representation are transparent . The descriptions employed by science ...
... imply the functionality of the beliefs which employ them . The objectivity of those beliefs may be as secure as the objectivity of science , even though they refer , not to the underlying structure of reality , but to the Lebenswelt ...
... imply . At many points in what follows , my discussion will make contact with religion , not only because — as has been frequently observed — erotic and religious sentiments show a peculiar isomorphism , but also because religious ...
... imply , and for which they provide , indeed , one of the deepest justifications - a justification that stems from the inner quality of the most private human experience . 2 AROUSAL Human beings talk and cooperate , they build 15 THE ...
Inhalt
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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 |