Blackburn Simon: Požuda

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Simon Blackburn: Lust

The Seven Deadly Sins

For fifteen years, The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press have invited distinguished figures from the fields of social science and literature to deliver a series of lectures on a topic of their choice. These two institutions asked seven distinguished writers, scholars and critics to present their thoughts on temptation on the subject of one of the seven deadly sins.

Using historical and contemporary research, each writer points to the conceptual and practical challenges that this deadly sin presents to spirituality, ethics and everyday life.

"Lust", by Simon Blackburn, is one of the books in that series of lectures and, after "Greed", the second book in that series published in the library Facta.

In this booklet, philosopher Simon Blackburn argues that, far from being declared a sin, lust is not only useful, but essential. First defining lust and what is wrong with it (sic!), Blackburn will show us the way to its very heart, and connect the insights of some of the most brilliant thinkers about sex, human nature and our own cultural flaws.

He will present us with different views on it throughout the history of the West, show what Aristophanes and Plato, the Stoics, thought about lust, and look in particular at the Christian fear of human flesh that successfully catapulted lust among the mortals. sins.

He will explain how philosophical pessimists like Schopenhauer and Sartre have contributed to our thinking about lust and explore the false starts in understanding lust as they are called by thinkers like Freud, Kinsey and modern evolutionary psychologists. In particular, he will refer to the works of David Hume, who saw lust not only as a pleasure of the senses, but as a joy of the mind.

But perhaps most importantly, Blackburn will remind us (or teach) how invigorating, fun and life-affirming lust is.

#Blackburn Simon