Tag Archives: egocentric pleasure
The Ins and Outs of Sex
Today I’m getting back to The Philosophy of Sex, the collection of essays we’ve visited before. It’s the volume where philosophers wade hip deep into the dark waters of sex and how to think about it. This time I’ll start … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, agnosticism, alienation, American politics, anthropology, anti-semitism, appreciation, art, art of living, atheism, authenticity, autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Bible, Biblical Archeology, Biblical God, bigotry, book reviews, books, bureaucracy, childhood, chivalry, Christianity, cities, class, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, Desire and Authenticity, dialectic, eighteenth century, erotic life, eternity, ethics, ethnicity, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, fatherhood, female power, femininity, feminism, filial piety, films, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, Industrial Revolution, institutional power, Jesus, Jews, journalism, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, martyrdom, masculinity, master, master/slave relation, medieval, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, mortality vs immortality, motherhood, mysticism, Nihilism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, power games, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, racism, radicalism, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, remembrance, Renaissance, repairing the culture, roles, romance, romantic love, romanticism, science, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, seventeenth century, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, Suicide, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, Trauma, Truth, TV, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
|
Tagged 18th-century cynicism, 18th-century novels of cynicism, altruistic concern for pleasure, altruistic pleasure motive, animal appetite vs human sexuality, Asexuality by Luke Brunning and Natasha McKeever, asexuality not a pathology, coercive sex, concealing previous partners, concealing STI, dark desires, Dark Desires by Seiriol Morgan, desire and its sexual expression, desire without sexual expression, desires can be dark, egocentric pleasure, eros and unrequited love, erotic freedoms and moral mistakes, erotic life beyond sexuality, ethical sensitivity and sex, feigning infertility, free love and its costs, hiding marital status, I’m not a puritan, Kant and moral autonomy, Kant and persons as ends, Kant and using another person, Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos, mutual consent and sex, nonsexual attraction, nonsexual concern for others, passionate merging, passionate merging with sex as means, philosophers on sex, pleasure from pleasing another, power dynamics and sex, pretended singleness, pretending to be liberated, pretending you aren’t married, price of free love, proving liberal credentials, proving non-puritan credentials, risks of erotic freedom, seduction’s aim as defeating virtue, sex and coerced consent, sex and coercion, sex and consent, sex and cynicism, sex and moral permissibility, sex and moral restrictions, sex and personal authority, sex and philosophy, sex and pretended love, sex and taking advantage, sex and vulnerable people, sex as the main event, sex in return for benefits, sex right and wrong, sex under false pretenses, sexuality and what’s important, the don’ts of sexual activity, the lowdown on sex, The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, thinking about sex, Thomas A. Mappes’ Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person, timely warnings about seduction, using another person, Vicomte de Valmont seducer
|
Leave a comment
