The Metaphysics Of Sexual Love

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1791542263

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The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love by Arthur Schopenhauer Pdf

"Schopenhauer innovates by introducing the issue of sexuality into western philosophy. Of course, his assessment of it is not an encouraging one. For him, it embodies the will to life more strongly than any other urge or desire; hence it is responsible for the misery of the human condition more than anything else. Even the most elevated form of romantic love is nothing but a mental addition or justification for the natural need for sex and the species' desire to maintain itself. After succumbing to our sexual desires, he says, we realize that we have once again been deceived by the instinct of survival that seeks procreation through us. The lessening of sexual desire with age is thus to be welcomed as a liberation. Needless to say, Schopenhauer remained celibate throughout his life." Schopenhauer, New world encyclopedia.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : FV Éditions
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9782366686654

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The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes by Arthur Schopenhauer Pdf

Is Love an Illusion ? What is the relationship between Love and Sexual Impulse ? Schopenhauer gives us a new way of thinking about relationships between men and women.

Author : Julius Evola
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0892813156

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Eros and the Mysteries of Love by Julius Evola Pdf

A controversial philosopher and critic of modern Western civilization, Julius Evola (1898-1974) writes about the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love. This in-depth study explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, and shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deep potentialities of human beings are recognized.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0899012817

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The Metaphysics of Sexual Love by Arthur Schopenhauer Pdf

Author : Alan Soble
Publisher : Paragon Issues in Philosophy
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39076002803737

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Philosophy of Sex and Love by Alan Soble Pdf

"This introductory textbook is an overview of the nature and the ethics of the many aspects of sex and love"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Patricia Marino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429750670

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Philosophy of Sex and Love by Patricia Marino Pdf

Writing for non-specialists and students as well as for fellow philosophers, this book explores some basic issues surrounding sex and love in today's world, among them consent, objectification, non-monogamy, racial stereotyping, and the need to reconcile contemporary expectations about gender equality with our beliefs about how love works. Author Patricia Marino argues that we cannot fully understand these issues by focusing only on individual desires and choices. Instead, we need to examine the social contexts within which choices are made and acquire their meanings. That perspective, she argues, is especially needed today, when the values of individualism, self-expression, and self-interest permeate our lives. Marino asks how we can fit these values, which govern so many areas of contemporary life, with the generosity, caring, and selflessness we expect in love and sex. Key Features of Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Opinionated Introduction Offers a contemporary, problems-based approach to the subject, helping readers better understand and address current issues and controversial questions Includes coverage of sex and love as they intersect with topics like disability, race, medicine, and economics Considers not only the ethical, but also the broadly social and political dimensions of sex and love Includes a helpful introduction and conclusion in each chapter and is written throughout in a clear and straightforward style, with examples and signposts to help guide the student and general reader A comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography provides a valuable tool for anyone’s further research

Author : Gary Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199015201

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Desire, Love, and Identity by Gary Foster Pdf

An engaging and accessible introduction to the subject, this text explores love and sex as defining features of our identity. Through thirty-nine classic and contemporary articles, as well as original contributions written by emerging voices in the field, Desire, Love, and Identity covers awide range of topics, such as sexual objectification, the ethics of sex work, love and sex online, friendship, polyamory, and BDSM.

Author : Raja Halwani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135149642

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Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage by Raja Halwani Pdf

How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together “like a horse and carriage”? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive textbook, Raja Halwani pursues the philosophical questions inherent in these three important aspects of human relationships, exploring the nature, uses, and ethics of romantic love, sexuality, and marriage. The book is structured in three parts: Love begins by examining how romantic love differs from other types of love, such as friendship and parental love. It asks which properties of love are essential, whether people have a choice in whom they love, and whether lovers have moral obligations to one another that differ from those they owe to others Sex demonstrates the difficulty in defining sex and the sexual, and examines what constitutes good and bad sex in terms of pleasure, 'naturalness', and moral permissibility. It offers theoretical and applied ethical approaches to a wide range of sexual phenomena Marriage traces the history of the institution, and describes the various forms in which marriage exists and the reasons why people marry. It also surveys accounts of why people should or should not marry, and introduces the main arguments for and against gay marriage. Features include: suggestions for further reading online eResource site with dowloadable discussion questions a clear, jargon-free writing style.

Author : Christopher Grau,Aaron Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199395729

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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love by Christopher Grau,Aaron Smuts Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays from leading philosophers on the nature and value of love.

Author : Pärttyli Rinne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110543896

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Kant on Love by Pärttyli Rinne Pdf

“This is an immensely useful resource for other scholars and philosophers wishing to understand Kant’s views on love.” – Rae Langton, University of Cambridge What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? In Kant on Love, Pärttyli Rinne provides the first systematic study of ‘love’ in the philosophy of Kant. Rinne argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously realised, and that understanding love is actually essential for Kantian ethical life.The study involves two interpretative main propositions. First, that love in Kant includes an underlying general division of love into love of benevolence and love of delight. Further, the study divides Kant’s concept of love into several aspects of love, such as self-love, sexual love (and love of beauty), love of God, love of neighbor and love in friendship. A chapter of the book is devoted to each of these aspects, beginning with the lowest forms of self-love as crude animality, and moving gradually upwards towards idealised ethical notions of love. One way or another, the major aspects relate to the general division of love.This analytical trajectory yields the second main proposition of the study: Together, the aspects of love reveal an ascent of love in Kant’s thought. Perhaps surprisingly, for Kant, love permeates human existence from the strongest impulses of nature to the highest ideals of morally deserved happiness.

Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262266475

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Meaning in Life, Volume 2 by Irving Singer Pdf

An acclaimed philosopher offers a systematic mapping of the various facets of love. In his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach. Without denying his previous emphasis on the role of imagination and creativity, in this book Singer investigates the ability of them both to make one's life meaningful. A “systematic mapping” of the various facets of love (including sexual love, love in society, and religious love), The Pursuit of Love is an extended essay that offers Singer's own philosophical and psychological theory of love. Rich in insight into literature, the history of ideas, and the complexities of our being, The Pursuit of Love is a thought-provoking inquiry into fundamental aspects of all human relationships.

Author : Alan Soble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015021519049

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The Philosophy of Sex by Alan Soble Pdf

Now in its third edition, this fascinating book illustrates how a philosophical approach to sexuality can shed light on various sexual phenomena, such as pornography, prostitution, sadomasochism, homosexuality, masturbation, sexual perversion, and adultery. A definitive work on a provocative topic.

Author : Robert C. Solomon,Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035248470

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The Philosophy of (erotic) Love by Robert C. Solomon,Kathleen Marie Higgins Pdf

Solomon and Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.

Author : Damon Young
Publisher : Scribe Us
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1950354555

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On Getting Off by Damon Young Pdf

Author : Reidar Due
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231167321

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Love in Motion by Reidar Due Pdf

This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film history. The book spans this history from early silent directors such as Joseph von Sternberg to contemporary filmmakers like Sophia Coppola. At the centre of this study is a comparison between Classical French and American love films of the forties and a series of modernist films by Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Wong Kar Wai.