--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
<<How does one, over the course of a life, combine stability and kindness with passion? For passion is a virtue and not just an indulgence. It leads, as Sartre and Beauvoir knew, to the greatest creativity, the deepest grasp of others, the most vivid self-renewal.>>
Thanks for the interesting post Yoshie. I agree and disagree with the above statment. Passion can be very passive. Something that happens to you. And so, when the initial tingling of a relationship fades, you can just decide that the solution is to go and get your passion fix somewhere else. I am not arguing for monogamy, just the sort of sophmoric, negative reaction toward monogamy that seems to have afflicted Sartre and perhaps Beauvoir. On the other hand, it is tempting to think that Sartre's serial womanizing had more to do with compensating for his ugly appearance than it did with his purported attack on the bourgeois institution of marriage.
-Thomas
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