Monday, October 7, 2019

Sex

"Sex has received little attention in the history of western philosophy, and what it did receive was not good: Plato denigrated it, ... Aristotle barely mentioned it, and Christian philosophers condemned it." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sex-sexuality/ …

"Immanuel Kant (Lectures on Ethics) considered it the only inclination that cannot satisfy the Categorical Imperative, and Jean-Paul Sartre claimed that sexual desire aims to capture the other’s freedom."

1:27 PM - 5 Jul 2018

"Only during contemporary times do philosophers, beginning with Bertrand Russell (1929) and including Sigmund Freud (1905), think of sex as generally good." -- Raja Halwani in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

3 consective tweets by Sean Carroll