Philosophy of Sex & Love - Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Romantic Relationships
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Examining Love: An Introduction
Ethnographies
An Exercise in Analyzing Pop Culture
Question 1: What Does “Love” Mean?
Reflection
The Film: Mike Birbiglia— My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
Questions to Consider
Article 1: Excerpt from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Questions to Consider
Article 2: Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Questions to Consider
Article 3: The Model by Guy de Maupassant
Questions to Consider
Article 4: “Socrates and Alcibiades”—Excerpt from The Symposium by Plato
Questions to Consider
Question 2: How Does Gender Affect Our Experience of Love and Sex?
Reflection
The Film: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Questions to Consider
Article 1: “Aristophanes”—Excerpt from
the Symposium by Plato
Questions to Consider
Article 2: Excerpt from Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
Questions to Consider
Question 3: Is Lust Always Bad?
Reflection
The Film: Don Jon
Questions to Consider
Article 1: Fatal Addiction: Ted Bundy’s Final Interview with James Dobson
Questions to Consider
Article 2: “The Philosophy of Lust” by Neel Burton
Questions to Consider
Question 4: Why Do People Have Sex?
Reflection
The Film: Cabaret
Questions to Consider
Article 1: “Sex Without Love”— Selection from Plato’s Phaedrus
Questions to Consider
Article 2: Why Adultery? By Helen Fisher
Questions to Consider
Question 5: How Can We Be Ethical in Our Romantic Relationships?
Reflection
The Film: In the Mood for Love
Questions to Consider
Article 1: “The Harms of Consensual Sex” by Robin West
Study Questions (from Alan Soble)
Questions to Consider
Article 2: “Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person” by Thomas Mappes
Questions For Reflection
I The Morally Significant Sense of “Using Another Person”
II Deception and Sexual Morality
III Coercion and Sexual Morality
Questions to Consider
Article 3: Deus Caritas Est of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI
Questions to Consider
Question 6: What Is Marriage?
Reflection
The Film: Revolutionary Road
Questions to Consider
Article 1: “Istanbul” by Ian Brown
Questions to Consider
Article 2: “On Marriage and Love” by Emma Goldman
Questions to Consider
Jessica Gosnell earned a B.A. from Clarke College and an M.A. and PH.D. from the University of Iowa. She is professor of philosophy at St. Ambrose University where she has taught since 2005. Her publications include Two Faces of Eros: Plato’s Theory of Love and articles appearing in journals such as Teaching Philosophy and Philosophy and Film. Her presentations and course research focuses on the areas of conflict and interpersonal relationships, as well as applied philosophy.