SLL301F: Draft synopsis of our discussions

Themes considered in the Modern Love section of Sex: Sappho to Cyber SLL301F


Changing Ontologies

Characterizing the temperaments of modern life- thinking about their origins, our guiding assumptions, what moves us, what we expect from love.

Our ancient identification of sex & knowledge

sex & hubris
sex & sin
sex & health

What is a human being? What can a human become?
Essence
Authority
Power
Limit

The continuity of moral tradition

Christianity- Science- State- History

The salvation of human life:
freedom
self-creation
rebellion & transgression

Persona

Society-Individual

Soul to Self
Eternity to History


Will to Power

Always the questions what is sex for? What does sex mean? What does sex do? are necessarily answered by the questions What is a human being? What does a life mean? What must one seek to be & act?

Communication: poetry to god, poetry to beloved, poetry to a cause, to an idea.