PHIL 104 - Philosophy of Sex and Love

5 Credits

This course introduces students to philosophy via the topics of sex and love. It explores philosophical questions and controversies regarding each. Topics explored may include the nature of sex and love, sex with love, sex without love, desire, marriage, friendship, monogamy, polygamy, homosexuality, social control of sex and love, sexual ethics, sexual taboos, sexual perversions, objectification, sex work, pornography, and others. Both historical and contemporary philosophical approaches to such topics are examined.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Day, Online
Winter Day, Online
Spring Day, Online

Designed to Serve Students seeking Humanities Area 1 distribution credit; students needing AA credit; Running Start students; students with an interest in philosophy; general students.
Active Date 20230328T10:34:26

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Humanities Area I

Course Outline
1- INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL TOOLS

Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics

2 - LOVE

What is love?
Historical Approaches: e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Freud,
Contemporary Approaches: e.g., Lewis, Sartre, Nozick, Nussbaum, Badhwar

3 - SEX

What is sex?
Historical Approaches: e.g., Aristophanes, Aquinas, Wollstonecraft,
Contemporary Approaches: e.g., Russell, Beauvoir, Foucault, Soble, Nussbaum, Solomon, Perel

4 - CONTEMPORARY QUESTIONS & CONTROVERSIES REGARDING SEX & LOVE

Select contemporary issues which may include the nature of sex and love, sex with love, sex without love, desire, marriage, friendship, monogamy, polygamy, homosexuality, social control of sex and love, sexual ethics, sexual taboos, sexual perversions, objectification, sex work, pornography, and others

Student Learning Outcomes
Describe major philosophical issues and debates regarding sex and love

Correctly apply key concepts in the philosophy of sex and love to issues and problems in a variety of contexts

Explain and critique passages from historical and contemporary texts about sex and love

Generate one's own arguments and conclusions with respect to philosophical issues regarding sex and love