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Article: Sexual desire: a moral philosophy of the erotic.
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- National Review
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- June 20, 1986
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Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic
Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic, by Roger Scruton (Free Press, 426 pp., $25)
PHILOSOPHERS HAVE long tended to follow the lead of Plato and early Christian theologians in consigning the erotic to the realm of the "animal,' and letting it go at that. Roger Scruton, a brilliant young English philosopher and editor of the conservative quarterly The Salisbury Review, won't let it go at that. He argues, from secular premises, for a kind of sexual morality that is, with a few striking points of difference, a reasonable facsimile of traditional sexual morality.
I had better say at once ...