[lbo-talk] Re: Dixor

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 7 19:33:01 PDT 2003


Some people have too much time on their hands.

Remember, as Jimmy Carter reminded us, that the Good Book says that you have commited adultery if you look upon another man's wife with lust in your heart.

jks

--- Chris Brooke <chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 7/10/03 10:03 pm, "andie nachgeborenen"
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Mill, btw, also Lived In Sin, and adulterously
> > too, with his girlfriend Harriet Taylor...
>
> My impression was that Mill scholars agree with
> Mill's opinion in the
> Autobiography that the pair were not adulterous, and
> that they only continue
> to disagree over whether they _ever_ had sex, even
> after marriage. (There
> are various theories in the literature as to why
> this might have been the
> case, with varying degrees of plausibility).
>
> Which is not to say that they didn't generate
> scandal.
>
> One interesting recent reflection on their
> relationship is here:
>
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/Hilda%20Hume%20Text.htm
>
> Chris
>
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