LEADER 02872nam 22005894a 450 001 9910784846503321 005 20230617010651.0 010 $a1-280-83825-6 010 $a0-19-534754-4 010 $a1-4294-3097-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000404495 035 $a(EBL)422521 035 $a(OCoLC)437108761 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194898 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12073930 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194898 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10233096 035 $a(PQKB)11388072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266482 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL83825 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000404495 100 $a20030421d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLust$b[electronic resource] /$fSimon Blackburn 210 $a[New York] $cNew York Public Library ;$aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 225 1 $aThe seven deadly sins 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-531207-4 311 $a0-19-516200-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; EDITOR'S NOTE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Desire; CHAPTER TWO: Excess; CHAPTER THREE: Two Problems from Plato; CHAPTER FOUR: Stiff Upper Lips; CHAPTER FIVE: The Christian Panic; CHAPTER SIX: The Legacy; CHAPTER SEVEN: What Nature Intended; CHAPTER EIGHT: Some Consequences; CHAPTER NINE: Shakespeare versus Dorothy Parker; CHAPTER TEN: Hobbesian Unity; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Disasters; CHAPTER TWELVE: Substitutions; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Evolution and Desire; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Overcoming Pessimism; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Farewell; NOTES; INDEX 330 $aLust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust ""from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue."". Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some 410 0$aSeven deadly sins. 606 $aLust$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 615 0$aLust$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a176 700 $aBlackburn$b Simon$f1944-$044934 712 02$aNew York Public Library. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784846503321 996 $aLust$953553 997 $aUNINA