PHIL 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Married People, Slave Catcher, Shelly Kagan
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Seduction: co(cid:374)l(cid:455): disti(cid:374)guish (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a (cid:373)ere desire a(cid:374)d a(cid:374) (cid:862)all thi(cid:374)gs (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered(cid:863) desire. When weakness of will is induced by someone else. Cookie analogy: want cookies but on diet, someone else bakes them and waves them under your nose when still warm. Someone is counting on triggering a weakness of will in you. Cousin beau case: cousin always treated you nicely, has no money/luck with money making schemes, asks you for trust money with promise of return. Give him money because love of him, history with him makes you feel self imposed to give him money. 2 types of sexual seduction case: when the desire to have sex is sexual desire, when the desire to have sex is not a sexual desire. Co(cid:373)pl(cid:455) e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though it"s (cid:374)ot (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) want. Maki(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)ere desire (cid:373)ore salie(cid:374)t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though it"s i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith all thi(cid:374)gs (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered desire. Can seduction ever be rape: conly says no.
