Romantic Love, Altruism, and Self‐Respect: An Analysis of Simone De Beauvoir
作者:
Kathryn Pauly Morgan,
期刊:
Hypatia
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 1,
issue 1
页码: 117-148
ISSN:0887-5367
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00525.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
I examine Beauvoir's moral assessment of Romantic Love inThe Second Sex.I first set out Beauvoir's central philosophical assumptions concerning the nature and situations of women, setting the framework for her analysis of the intersubjective dynamic which constitutes the phenomenology of romantic loving. In this process four double‐bind paradoxes are generated which can lead, ultimately, to servility in the woman who loves.In a separate analysis, I ask whether it is wrong for a woman to aspire to and/or choose this form of servitude. I distinguish two kinds of considerations: (1) those having to do with the intrinsic moral nature of the commitment or decision, and (2) those based on considerations of harm: first, to the woman who loves; second, to the loved Other; third to the nature of the relationship; and fourth, to society in genera
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