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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... mental states marks out a space , as it were , before me — a gap into which an object may be fitted . My fear is fear of something , my perception perception of something , and so on . Sometimes I am myself the object of my thoughts ...
... mental life of animals must depend upon an overall theory of animal capacities , and it would be inappropriate at this stage to make any unwarranted assumptions . A lion dozing in the sun feels pleasure at the warmth of the sun , but ...
... mental states cannot always be comfortably described by this term : or rather , it cannot be assumed that any particular theory of ' thought ' ( such as that given by Frege , which argues that the identity of a thought is given by the ...
... mental states - so long as we remember , in other words , that sexual gestures cannot be ' translated . ' The experience of arousal may then be explained on the analogy with linguistic understanding : just as I understand your utterance ...
... mental items are to be answered , not by scientific investigation , but by philosophical ( which means equally ' phenomenological ' or ' conceptual ' ) analysis . Of course , scientific investigation of mental phenomena is also possible ...
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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 |