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Sex + Love

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What Socrates thinks we look for in love, why, and how he suggests it.
The good and the beautiful in order to escape our morality
Aristotle's advice about how we can get phronesis and the virtues
Find someone wise and imitate them
Develop good habits
Aim to avoid the extreme that is more tempting to you
Aristotle's view of what friendship requires
Feelings of liking and affection toward one another
One must wish well for that friend's own sake
The mutuality of affection and goodwill must be recognized
Aristotle's 3 types of friendships
Friendships of use
Friendships of pleasure
Friendships of virtue
Greta Christina's criticism of "vaginal intercourse" as a problematic definition of what it means to "have sex"
She goes through what can count as sex and different people might think different things about sex
She thinks sex is conscious and both people need to know if it's sex. It's heteronormative and what if you think you had sex but nothing went in
Greta Christina's analysis of 3 potential alternative definitions of what sex is
Did you think it was sex and mutual acknowledge it
Was it consenting
Differences between gay and straight people having sex
Goldman, Nagel, and Solomon's definitions of what sex is
Goldman: "sexual desire is desire for contact with another person's body and for the pleasure which such contact brings"
Nagel: Natural human sexuality involves a pleasurable oscillation between awareness of oneself as the object of the other's desire and my awareness, as desiring subject, of the other as desirable to me.
Solomon: Sex is a form of communication between people employing body language and yields pleasure only as a accidental by-product
Why Augustine thinks lust is sinful and sex shameful
Lust takes over both the physical and the mental - it disobeys our will
Wisdom and virtue requires self control and exercise of free will, but this part of ourselves we can't control and impedes free will
It's shameful because we hide it
The difference Augustine draws between lust and love
By love I mean the impulse of one's kind to enjoy God in his own account and to enjoy oneself and one's neighbor on account of God, and by list I mean impulse of one's mind to enjoy oneself and one's neighbor and any corporeal thing not on account of God
What Solomon means when he says that love is a cultural and historical emotion
Each culture experiences it differently
What philosophical, socioeconomic, and culture shifts Solomon thinks led to our contemporary notion of romantic love
Getting the choice in marriage, the nuclear family, equality, sex being intertwined with love, romantic novels
What the features of romantic love are, according to Solomon
Love is just sex
Why Schopenhauer thinks love is an illusion
Our sexual instincts trick us into love in order to continue the species
Love makes us do the worst things for ourselves and others
Schopenhauer's view of love in relation to evolution and reproduction
Love corresponds to the most important and serious thing in the world - the perpetration of the
What Schopenhauer thinks makes us passionate about a particular person we love
We look for good qualities that we lack ourselves
Aristophanes' story and what it says about love's
We were born with 4 legs and 2 heads, love is just a wound we are trying to fill
What, specifically, Aristotle thinks a good friend can do to help you attain a good life
A good friend is there to listen to you and pushes you to do noble things
Pausanias' distinction between Common Love and Heavenly love
Common love is just for sex, heavenly love is for love and to be better
Whether there is any kind of equality in Pausanias' Heavenly love
There is equality because each person is getting something they want
Ortega y Gassett's theory of falling in love
Everyone who falls in love does it the same way. It's about attention
Why Ortega y Gassett believes that we attach so much importance to the person we fall in love with
Because your life is important to you and you begin to focus on what is important to you
The distinction Ortega y Gassett draws between love and obsession
Obsession is something you don't want to focus on and love is something you do
Stendhal's Crystallization theory of falling in love
1. admiration for the person
2. One says to one's self: "How delightful to kiss her." Etc
3. Hope that love is possible
4. Love is born
5. An initial crystallization
6. Doubt is born
7. A second crystallization
Solomon's paradox of love and the problem that leads to it
You love the person and want to unite with them but you also love their individuality
What Aristotle believes a good life is and what that has to do with friendship
Virtue friends help you become a better person
Friends are pleasurable - they make people happy
Part of the good life is being able to exercise our virtues with our friends and enjoy sharing that experience
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