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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... particular , anyone who finds himself obstructed by Chapter 3 should pass at once to Chapter 4 , where the discussion of sexual desire is continued . I THE PROBLEM Modern philosophers have described sexual desire and X Advice to the reader.
... particular on Chaucer , the Troubadours , Cavalcanti , Boccaccio and Dante . It survives in the popular idea - itself founded in the most dubious of metaphysical distinctions that sexual desire is primarily ' physical ' , while love ...
... particular conclusions , he will , I hope , agree that it need not be absurd to condemn homosexual intercourse , fornication , masturbation , or whatever , even though we all have an urge to do these things , and even though there may ...
... particular two separate conceptual enterprises , by which our understanding is formed . The world is more than an object of scientific curiosity . It is compliant to our purposes : everywhere we confront the occasion for action and the ...
... particular to the division . between functional and natural kinds.8 Given our dual existence , as active and as contemplative beings , it is natural that we should avail ourselves of the two kinds of concept , and that there should be ...
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16 | |
36 | |
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 |