How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and
marriage really go together "like a horse and carriage"? Does sex
have any necessary connection to either? And how important are
love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In the Second Edition
of this lively, lucid, and comprehensive book, Raja Halwani
explores and elucidates the nature, uses, and ethics of romantic
love, sexuality, and marriage. It is structured in three parts:
Love examines the nature of romantic love and how it differs from
other types of love, such as friendship and parental love. It also
investigates the relationship of love to morality and asks what
limits morality puts on romantic love and even whether romantic
love is inherently moral. Sex demonstrates the difficulty in
defining sex and the sexual, and examines what constitutes good and
bad sex in terms of pleasure, "naturalness," and moral
permissibility. It discusses the nature of sexual desire and its
connection to objectification and virtue, all the while looking at
specific sexual engagements such as pornography, BDSM, and raced
desires. Marriage traces the history of the institution and
describes the various forms in which marriage exists and the
reasons why people marry. It also investigates the necessity of
marriage and ways in which it requires reform. Updates and
Revisions in the Second Edition Expands the coverage of love and
morality from one to two chapters, incorporating much of the recent
literature on love as a moral emotion. Includes a new chapter on
sex and virtue ethics. Ends each of the chapters on sex with an
"applied" topic, such as pornography, BDSM, prostitution, racial
sexual desires, and adultery. Increases coverage of the nature and
purpose of marriage, including debates surrounding same-sex
marriage, but also moving beyond these debates to include issues on
minimal marriage, temporary marriage, polygamy, and other forms of
marriage. Updates the Further Reading and Study Questions sections
at the end of each chapter and provides an up-to-date comprehensive
bibliography at the back of the book. Includes new discussions of
topics on the nature of love; love and reasons; distinctions
between two types of romantic love; love and its connections to
moral theories; definitions of crucial sexual concepts;
objectification; virtue and sex; racial sexual desires; and the
definition of marriage and whether it is important as an
institution.
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