Evolutionary explanations of human behavior play in explaining sexual morality
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What role, if any, should evolutionary explanations of human behavior play in explaining sexual morality
use the following readings:
Plato: Republic (selections).
Ryan and Jethá: “Introduction” from Sex at Dawn
Zuk: “Paleofantasy Love” from Paleofantasy
Schopenhauer: “Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes” from The World as Will and Idea
Kant: “Duties Towards the Body in Respect of the Sexual Impulse” and Crimina Carnis from Lectures on Ethics
Sade: selections from “Fifth Dialogue” and “Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans,” from Philosophy in the Bedroom
Freud: “Sexual Abberrations,” the first essay from Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Nussbaum: “Objectification”