| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages) |
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Routledge research in applied ethics |
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Routledge research in applied ethics.
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| Contents |
Part I. Visions of contemporary chastity -- 1. Chastity and the well-lived life -- 2. Sexuality as secularly sacred -- 3. Contemporary chastity still consists in principles of temperance, justice, and prudence -- 4. Chastity, lust, and practical wisdom -- Part II. The limits and dangers of chastity -- 5. Is chastity a virtue? -- 6. Chastity, power dynamics, and enduring spousal love -- Part III. Culturally contextualized expressions of chastity -- 7. Finding chastity in a secular age : chastity as a virtue of sexual autonomy -- 8. Cephalus : a quotidian case for chastity in Republic I -- 9. The family as the foundation of the Confucian ethical order -- Part IV. Chastity and objectification -- 10. Sexual temperance and sexual objectification -- 11. Objectification, indication, and chastity -- Part V. Specific applications of chastity -- 12. Chastity in the workplace -- 13. A renewed chastity for a new era : an aretaic response to contemporary pornography |
| Summary |
A collection of essays from experts in ethics and philosophy of love offers varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. For the past half century chastity has been portrayed as an unnecessary ideal with few secular benefits. The essays in this volume ask whether there are advantages to reconsider a contemporary virtue of chastity that can offer partial solutions to problems associated with externalized sexual desire, including sweeping patterns of sexual harassment, the high divorce/relationship-failure rate, and widespread pornography use |
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"This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent personal disposition concerning the ideal ordering of sexual desire such that the person desires that which is actually good for both the self and others affected by his or her sexual desires and actions. Yet, for roughly the past half century chastity has been increasingly portrayed as an unnecessary ideal with few secular benefits that could not be otherwise obtained. Instead, chastity is sometimes portrayed as an odd kind of religious asceticism with few secular benefits. The essays in this volume ask whether there may be advantages to reconsidering a contemporary virtue of chastity. A recovered and reconceptualized concept of chastity can offer partial solutions to problems associated with externalized sexual desire, including sweeping patterns of sexual harassment, the high divorce/relationship-failure rate, and widespread pornography use. Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in the philosophy of sex and love, virtue ethics, and philosophical accounts of secularity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Eric J. Silverman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University. He has written two monographs: The Supremacy of Love: An Agape Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics (2019) and The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Agent (2010). He has also co-edited Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays About Heaven (2017) |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2021) |
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Sexual ethics.
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Chastity.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Chastity
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Sexual ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Silverman, Eric J., 1971- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020058187 |
| ISBN |
9781000371840 |
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1000371840 |
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9781003057307 |
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1003057306 |
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9781000371888 |
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1000371883 |
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