Recently added articles from The Monist:
Privatizing marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... 1. Science Fiction Imagine a nation identical to our own, with only one difference: The government does not give out marriage licenses. In fact it does not recognize anything called 'marriage'. To be sure, people are permitted to "marry" within their own religious ...
Marriage: a basic and exigent good.
Jul 01, 2008; ... I Marrying is an act, the chosen act of the two spouses who thereby commit themselves to living as husband and wife. Marriage as a state or way of life--being married--is the couple's living out of that constitutive act of commitment in countless further acts, and in each ...
On the nature of marriage: Somerville on same-sex marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Same-sex couples in Canada were first granted the right to marry in 2003, (1) after acrimonious discussions in the Canadian Parliament and tribunals on the concept of marriage. In my capacity as philosopher of language and natural-language semanticist, I served as expert witness for the ...
Marriage, procreation, and same-sex unions.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Should the political community declare that (some) same-sex unions are marriages? Margaret A. Somerville has ably argued that it should not, that doing so harms children and families. Adele Mercier vehemently disagrees, describing Professor Somerville's argument as "contorted," "circular," ...
History, tradition, and the normative foundations of civil marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... On what has become known as the traditional account, marriage is a lifelong, multi-purpose association between two, and only two, persons--one male and one female. According to many, the state has good reason to recognize, and exclusively to support, this form of union. To defend this ...
A populist argument for legalizing same-sex marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... A man and woman may marry, but almost every legal jurisdiction denies this right to two men or two women. Many of us believe this to be a gross example of discrimination and injustice. But how can that be proven? Some arguments are based on highly controversial assumptions--for ...
Marriage and the norm of monogamy.
Jul 01, 2008; ... <Pre>Wilt thou keep thee only unto her? (1) You whisper soft to meThat I ain 't the only oneTo breathe your yellow hairCaress your bosom fairDo you think I really care?Do you think it matters? (2) </Pre> It appears that spouses have less reason to ...
Lying with the body.
Jul 01, 2008; ... 1. The reality of marriage Love sings within us of its permanence, and yet it often fails. The poets testify to both these things, as they do to the fidelity of love, which also is often unfaithful. The explanation of these facts is that erotic love not only inclines us towards ...
The reunion of marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Philosophers have often taken some form of psychological or even metaphysical union to be crucial to the kind of love that characterizes long-term intimate relationships such as marriage. But is it possible to articulate a conception of union that is adequate to the reality of marriage (as ...
Re-thinking civil unions and same-sex marriage.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction The current debate about same-sex marriage in the United States has largely overlooked two substantial assumptions shared by both proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage. (1) First, both proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage generally agree that ...
What's in a name? A philosophical critique of 'civil unions' predicated upon a sexual relationship.(Sound recording review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION On June 26, 2003 the United States Supreme Court overturned the convictions of two Texas men for "deviate sexual intercourse." Although the anti-sodomy law thrown out in Lawrence v. Texas (1) referred to a particular act, the Court's reasoning focused on the ...