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- catalog abstract ""This book explores elemental principles in the study of sex for trained philosophers and lay readers alike. Singer locates sex within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion, and claims that fundamental mistakes have persistently occurred because numerous theorists relegate sex, love, and compassion to separate and distinct compartments. Discussing sex as both an appetite and an interpersonal drive, Singer argues that much philosophical confusion has resulted from the doctrines of those who constrain sexuality within either of these to the detriment of the other. What is sexual for human beings is normally, and perhaps always in some degree, a composite of the appetitive and the interpersonal. In us, sex is generically a function of each. This unified conception of sexuality as a coming together of the appetitive and interpersonal drives then becomes the basis for his remarks about the relative value of individual sex acts, as well as their place within the aesthetic and moral dimension of human nature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12209360.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This book explores elemental principles in the study of sex for trained philosophers and lay readers alike. Singer locates sex within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion, and claims that fundamental mistakes have persistently occurred because numerous theorists relegate sex, love, and compassion to separate and distinct compartments. Discussing sex as both an appetite and an interpersonal drive, Singer argues that much philosophical confusion has resulted from the doctrines of those who constrain sexuality within either of these to the detriment of the other. What is sexual for human beings is normally, and perhaps always in some degree, a composite of the appetitive and the interpersonal. In us, sex is generically a function of each.".
- catalog description "1. Sex, Love, Compassion -- 2. Patterns of the Sensuous and the Passionate -- 3. The Nature and Evaluation of Sex -- 4. Criteria of Sexual Goodness. Pleasure. Enjoyment and Satisfaction. Completeness and Reciprocity. Love. Embodiment and Absorption. Natural and Unnatural -- 5. Is There an Art of Sex? -- Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Sex.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129) and index.".
- catalog description "This unified conception of sexuality as a coming together of the appetitive and interpersonal drives then becomes the basis for his remarks about the relative value of individual sex acts, as well as their place within the aesthetic and moral dimension of human nature."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 135 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0742512363 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield,".
- catalog subject "128/.3 21".
- catalog subject "B945.S6573 S49 2001".
- catalog subject "Sex.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Sex, Love, Compassion -- 2. Patterns of the Sensuous and the Passionate -- 3. The Nature and Evaluation of Sex -- 4. Criteria of Sexual Goodness. Pleasure. Enjoyment and Satisfaction. Completeness and Reciprocity. Love. Embodiment and Absorption. Natural and Unnatural -- 5. Is There an Art of Sex? -- Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Sex.".
- catalog title "Sex : a philosophical primer / Irving Singer.".
- catalog type "text".