Sexual Desire: A Philosophical InvestigationA&C Black, 2006 M03 5 - 448 páginas 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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... described the aim of sexual desire as : union of the genitals in the act known as copulation , which leads to a release of the sexual tension and a temporary extinction of the sexual instinct satisfaction analogous to the sating of ...
... 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.
A Philosophical Investigation Roger Scruton. I THE PROBLEM Modern philosophers have described sexual desire and erotic love in surprising and paradoxical ways . For Kant , sexual desire can be understood only as part of the ' pathology ...
... described from the first - person point of view . ( My reasons for this suspicion are set out in Appendix i. ) At the same time , I am greatly indebted to another idea which has been of supreme importance in phenomenology , and which is ...
... described the first world as ' transcendental ' , the second as ' empirical ' , and steered a brilliant course between two exhaustive , mutually incompatible and , for him , equally impossible views of their relation . On one view the ...
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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 |