tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post7530401498974710082..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Sex solely for pleasureAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-8846898335500365842009-11-17T11:48:00.777-06:002009-11-17T11:48:00.777-06:00Certainly, there are such sad cases. They weren&#...Certainly, there are such sad cases. They weren't my concern in this post, though. Nothing I said was intended to apply to them.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-68639889343373480692009-11-17T09:30:51.934-06:002009-11-17T09:30:51.934-06:00You said: "Is there a morally significant dif...You said:<i> "Is there a morally significant difference between having sex solely for one's pleasure and having sex for money which one intends to use solely as a means to one's pleasure?<br /><br />Both are cases where the sex is engaged in solely for hedonistic ends, but in the one case the pleasure is achieved more indirectly."</i><br /><br />I think that you don't take into account situations that are obviously not hedonistic but that imply having sex for money. For example a mother that has no money to feed her children may resort to actions of prostitution in order get money to feed her children. I know this scenario is not very plausible in the US or in western country's but it is a real life scenario in so many third world country's as I'm sure you probably know.<br />Every day there are children who die of hunger, and probably there are mothers who would rather commit prostitution, then see their children die of hunger. <br />I am not arguing that there are cases in which prostitution is not morally wrong or in which prostitution is even morally permissible, all I am saying is that there might be cases where having sex for money is not solely for hedonistic ends.<br />What do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-35701871789594596352009-11-05T09:25:07.057-06:002009-11-05T09:25:07.057-06:00I tend to agree that we analytics are basically re...I tend to agree that we analytics are basically recapitulating scholasticism, only from the heritage of British empiricism+neo-Kantianism, rather than neo-Platonist Christianity+Aristotelianism. Given the fact that no one ever teaches the scholastics, at some point this should cause some heart-searching among analytic philosophers. But so far--for reasons it would be uncharitable of me to speculate on--it has not.Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-14212514246306517882009-11-05T07:50:34.484-06:002009-11-05T07:50:34.484-06:00At a Department meeting at Georgetown, one of the ...At a Department meeting at Georgetown, one of the continental folks remarked that we analytic philosophers were just scholastics. He meant it is a very mild negative comment. Nobody took it as at all negative. :-)<br /><br />I am embarrassed to say that I once pejoratively characterized McDowell's view as a "naive version of a scholastic view" in a paper I wrote for him. He responded with the comment: "why naive?"Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-8733602081856481092009-11-05T07:30:05.839-06:002009-11-05T07:30:05.839-06:00Alex,
It is really too bad that the age of high ...Alex, <br /><br />It is really too bad that the age of high scholasticism ended some time ago, because you would have made a signal contribution to it. I'm quite serious.<br /><br />For lots of first-hand, complex evidence regarding modern New Yorker's motives for having sex, see New York Magazine's "sex diaries" feature which has been running for two years now. (Dabble with care.)<br /><br />http://nymag.com/tags/sex%20diariesHeath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com