Sex and Ethics

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Sex and Ethics: Essays on Sexuality, Virtue and the Good Life
AuthorRaja Halwani (editor)
LanguageEnglish
Subjectphilosophy of sex
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint, ebook
ISBN9781403989840

Sex and Ethics: Essays on Sexuality, Virtue and the Good Life is a book edited by Raja Halwani in which the authors provide philosophical analyses of different aspects of human sexuality.

Reception[edit]

The book was reviewed by Andreas G. Philaretou, John A. Dick and Cheshire Calhoun.[1][2]

Essays[edit]

  • Juha Sihvola, ‘‘Sexual Desire and Virtue in Ancient Philosophy’’
  • Lara Denis, ‘‘Sex and the Virtuous Kantian Agent’’
  • Martha Nussbaum, ‘‘Feminism, Virtue, and Objectification’’
  • Jonathan Jacob, ‘‘Sexuality and the Unity of the Virtues’’
  • David Carr, ‘‘On the Prospects of Chastity as a Contemporary Virtue’’
  • Peter Geach, ‘‘Temperance’’
  • Nicholas Dent, ‘‘Deliberation and Sense–Desire: The Virtue of Temperance’’
  • Raja Halwani, ‘‘Sexual Temperance and Intemperance’’
  • Neera Badhwar, ‘‘Carnal Wisdom and Sexual Virtue’’
  • Heather Battaly, ‘‘Intellectual Virtue and Knowing One’s Sexual Orientation’’
  • James Stramel, ‘‘Coming Out, Outing, and Virtue Ethics’’
  • Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker, ‘‘Components of Virtues and Stagnations in Moral-Sexual Development’’
  • Dirk Baltzly, ‘‘The Wrongness of Adultery: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach’’
  • Stephen Kersnar, ‘‘Pornography, Health, and Virtue’’
  • Raja Halwani, ‘‘Casual Sex, Promiscuity, and Temperance’’
  • Alan Soble, Afterword

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