PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peter Goldie, Catecholamine, Machismo
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This week: sex and love: kantian sexual morality without sex phobia, why one might want to be treated as a means, sex, love and chemistry, reasons for love, structural contrasts between love and sex, love and polyamory. Internalist: looking to the behaviour itself (behavioural, or looking for the motives and attitude (psychological, externalist, constraints on the conditions and relationships in which sex is permissible come from outside the participants and their psychological states. If you"re giving me sex because you love me, that could mean you don"t really want me. What is desiring? can desire to . : to desire a person is not equivalent to desiring that anything be the case. The storgic-eros type the only one that seems to fulfilthe requirement of humanistic sex: want to take care of one another but also experience sexual excitement. Desirable is reason to desire [but recall the ambiguity of desiring x and.
