aphrodisia

middle ages

trivia

chicken soup

chicken-broth

is the unity of sexual act/pleasure/desire, the very intensity of which causes sexuality to become problematic.

The UNITY of sexual act/pleasure/desire, the very intensity of which causes sexuality to become problematic. (net)

is a concept by which one can grasp what was recognized as the "ethical substance" in sexual behavior

I will consider four notions that are often encountered in the reflection on sexual ethics: the notion of aphrodisia, through which one can grasp what was recognized as the "ethical substance" in sexual behavior; the notion of "use," of chr?sis, which allows one to perceive the type of subjection that the practice of pleasures had to undergo in order to be morally valorized; the notion of enkrateia, of mastery, that defines the attitude that was required with respect to oneself in order to make oneself into an ethical subject; and lastly, the notion of "moderation," of sophrosyne, that characterized the ethical subject in his fulfillment. It should thus be possible to determine what structured the moral experience of sexual pleasures?its on? tology, its deontology, its ascetics, its teleology. (37)

is an ethical experience whose ontology was not one of deficiency and desire, or nature, but the dynamic relationship whose texture was constituted by a linking together of acts, pleasures and desires.

The ontology to which this ethics of sexual behavior referred was not, at least not in its general form, an ontology of deficiency and desire; it was not that of a nature setting the standard for acts; it was an ontology of a force that linked together acts, pleasures, and desires. It was this dynamic rela­tionship that constituted what might be called the texture of the ethical experience of the aphrodisia. (43)

is the combination of acts, gestures, and contacts that produce a certain form of pleasure.

The aphrodisia are the acts, gestures, and contacts that produce a certain form of pleasure. (40)

aphrodisia, n.Definitions

aphrodisia