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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... merely continues , in more vulgar and more spirited form , the moralising enterprise of Krafft - Ebing : the enterprise of confronting our moral sentiments with an allegedly ' scientific ' description of the facts which threaten them ...
... merely ' natural ' . Such a view may seem implausible when set beside the obvious immorality of child molestation or rape - crimes which seem to threaten the very existence of others as sexual beings , and to threaten also the sexual ...
... For we seek , not merely for the causes of events , but also for their meaning - even when they have no meaning . For example , we group the stars into constellations according to fictions of our own , and in 5 THE PROBLEM.
... merely scientific terms : in terms of the ' best explanation ' of what we are . For we are mere appearances , and the best explanation of our nature will probably not employ the concept of the person , even Che though that concept ...
... merely pleasures of sensation . It is not clear whether pleasures of the first kind can be attributed to the lower animals : perhaps they can . A dog may feel pleasure , we are apt to suppose , at the prospect of a walk or about his ...
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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 |