[lbo-talk] Emma v Ralph

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 23 09:17:44 PST 2004


How is morality - a set of behavioral prescriptions - the same as kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and love? The latter can be read as forms of erotic feeling, which are often lacking in moralists.

Doug

andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>So, you think sex is brutal? ;- > Or you think Emma
>thought it was? That is not my impression of her view
>on the subject. But --watching your kids grow -- don't
>you think that morality is a rather late developmental
>stage? Of course so is an interest in sex. My
>impreesion of the little ones is that they tend to be
>cheerfully amoral, fairly selfish, and casually cruel.
> "Brutal" seems to to me to go too far. jks
>
>--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > >"It is essential that we realize once and for all
>> that man is much
>> > >more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The
>> former is inherent,
>> > >the other is grafted on." -- Emma Goldman
>>
>> As much as I like Goldman (her two-volume autobio is
>> must reading), I cannot
>> go along with this morality grafting biz. Are
>> kindness, sympathy, empathy,
>> forgiveness and love merely electro-magnetic
>> impulses, or artificial
>> constructs that we "graft" on to our true brutal
>> selves? Watching my two
>> kids grow, I'd have to say no.
>>
>> DP
>>
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