Lust The Seven Deadly Sins,9780195162004

Lust The Seven Deadly Sins

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780195162004
ISBN10: 0195162005
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-02-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as "Think" and "Being Good," here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and common cultural foibles.

Author Biography


Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He was Edna J. Doury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1990 was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and the best-selling Think and Being Good, among other books.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE ix
PREFACE xi
INTRODUCTION 1(12)
CHAPTER ONE Desire 13(8)
CHAPTER TWO Excess 21(8)
CHAPTER THREE Two Problems from Plato 29(12)
CHAPTER FOUR Stiff Upper Lips 41(8)
CHAPTER FIVE The Christian Panic 49(16)
CHAPTER SIX The Legacy 65(4)
CHAPTER SEVEN What Nature Intended 69(4)
CHAPTER EIGHT Some Consequences 73(6)
CHAPTER NINE Shakespeare versus Dorothy Parker 79(8)
CHAPTER TEN Hobbesian Unity 87(6)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Disasters 93(10)
CHAPTER TWELVE Substitutions 103(8)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Evolution and Desire 111(16)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Overcoming Pessimism 127(6)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Farewell 133(2)
NOTES 135(8)
INDEX 143

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