Philosophy of Love Sex and Marriage An Introduction

Name: Philosophy of Love Sex and Marriage An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780415993517

ISBN-10: 0415993512

ISBN-13: 9780415993517

Edition: 2010

Authors: Raja Halwani

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Love



What Is Love?


Three Types of Love


Characterizing Romantic Love


Romantic Love as an Emotion


Generally Necessary Features of Romantic Love


Romantic Love and Infatuation


Summary


Notes


Further Reading



Romantic Love


Aristophanes on Union


Nozick, Sable, and Solomon on Union


Romantic Love and Robust Concern


Sex and the Durability of Romantic Love


Summary and Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



The Basis of Romantic Love


Socrates's Speech in Praise of Love


Loving for Reasons


What Do We Love? Properties of the Beloved


Different Types of Properties and Love's Durability and Depth


Summary


Notes


Further Reading



Love and Morality


Love and Morality


Moral Restrictions on Love


The Prudentiality of Love


Summary and Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



Sex



What Is Sex?


Defining Sexual Acts


Defining Sexual Desire


Defining Sexual Pleasure


Casual Sex, Adultery, and Prostitution


Notes


Further Reading



Sex, Pleasure, and Morality


Sexual Pleasure and other Values of Sex Acts


Consequentialism and Sex


Virtues, Vices, and Sex


Summary and Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



Sexual Objectification


What Is Sexual Objectification?


What Is Morally Wrong with Sexual Objectification?


Nussbaum on Objectification


Soble on Objectification


Kant and Objectification


Women and Pornography


Summary and Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



Sexual Perversion and Fantasy


Sexual Perversion


Fantasy


Notes


Further Reading



Marriage



What Is Marriage?


Defining Marriage


Monogamy


Notes


Further Reading



Controversies over Same-Sex Marriage


Preliminaries


The Natural Law Tradition


The Slippery-Slope Argument


The "Undermining Marriage" Argument


Richard Mohr's Argument for Same-Sex Marriage


Cheshire Calhoun's Argument for Same-Sex Marriage


Claudia Card's Argument against Same-Sex Marriage


The Assimilation and Cultural Injustice Arguments against Same-Sex Marriage


The Political Question


Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading


Concluding Remarks


Bibliography


Index