Love Analyzed by Roger E Lamb
Author:Roger E Lamb [Lamb, Roger E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429973116
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
A bleaker view of sexual love is hard to imagine. Sexual love is not really âhumanâ love at allâexcept in the sense that one might be prepared to describe the appetite of a cannibal as a love of human beings. Sexual love makes of the beloved an âobject of appetiteâ. The beloved is consumed by it, sucked dry, reduced to an empty rind, and cast by the wayside. The lover is, in the end, alone, the appetite stilled, a sour taste in the mouth.
Sexual love is said to make of the loved person an âobject of appetiteâ: but what does that mean? Given the moral character of Kantâs evident dismay, he appears to mean that in sexual love, or in merely sexual love, one treats people as things. Sexual love is not a remedy for solipsism at all, but forces solipsism upon us. Looking at passages like these, it can be hard to see how Kant imagines that sexual love is even compatible with the moral relations of friendship. That is why I said he goes too far by his own lights, if he suggests it âmakes no significant differenceâ whether a relationship is one of friendship or erotic love. His harsh words are modified, to be sure, by an attempt to allow their compa-tibility:
Sexual love can, of course, be combined with human love and so carry with it the characteristics of the latter, but taken by itself and for itself, it is nothing more than appetite. (LE 163)
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