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January 12, 2004

Lust, by any other name

Professor Simon Blackburn has a homepage. He is the one that wrote a book on how lust is to be positively acknowledged and embraced. His entry on sex reads as follows:

In this area, prophecies are apt to be self-fulfilling: it is predictable that if we side with Kant our sexual relationships will be a lot worse than if we understand Hobbes.

Posted by Camilo at Monday, January 12 2004 in Society

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Very interesting! "Kant seems to be describing a gang rape rather than sexual love": Kant shares that point of view with Andrea "violation is a synonym for intercourse" Dworkin. (Although I note that she now denies ever having said that all intercourse is rape.)

I seem to have anticipated Blackwell's last paragraph; I only wish he'd pointed out that there are Hobbesian as well as Kantian feminists.

Posted by: Prentiss Riddle at January 12, 2004 01:23 PM

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