RELG 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Condonation, Immanence, Secularity
16 Aug 2016
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RELG 271
Lecture 3āJan 15
Sex and an Evolving Moral Ethos
Creation NarrativeāGenesis 2
āTherefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one
ļ¬esh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamedā
Aristotelian Family Theory
āThe ļ¬rst form of association naturally instituted for the satisfaction of daily recrurrent needs is
thus the familyā
-Aristotle's response of Plato
-State and family fundamental
-Natural impulse toward multiplication
Bruce MacDougall: Sites of Discourse
-Condemnation: compassion
-Condonation
-Celebration
To have full legal sexuality within a society, members of a minority group needāto be free of
discrimination, to have access to the beneļ¬ts others have and to be included as a valuable
group to the society
-Rights Revolution: rights ā sexual ā moral
Sexuality and Secularity
-Prehistory of the sexual revolution: sexual pleasures as vice (catholic view) or sexual act as a
bonding (Victorian England and American view)
-17th & 18th centuries: reading Godās will into his design for nature
-19th century: immanence vs. transcendence
-1920ās: new freedom, hesitant lifting, sensuality was disconnected from marriage
-1960ās: gender, transgressive, identity
-Today: modernization, religious and moral conļ¬icting
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Document Summary
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed . The rst form of association naturally instituted for the satisfaction of daily recrurrent needs is thus the family . To have full legal sexuality within a society, members of a minority group need to be free of discrimination, to have access to the bene ts others have and to be included as a valuable group to the society. Rights revolution: rights sexual moral. Prehistory of the sexual revolution: sexual pleasures as vice (catholic view) or sexual act as a bonding (victorian england and american view) 17th & 18th centuries: reading god"s will into his design for nature. 1920"s: new freedom, hesitant lifting, sensuality was disconnected from marriage.
