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Porn Revisited
Author(s) -
Mann Doug
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of social philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1467-9833
pISSN - 0047-2786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.1997.tb00364.x
Subject(s) - sympathy , pornography , censorship , set (abstract data type) , politics , sociology , political philosophy , law and economics , political science , law , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , psychology , computer science , programming language
In this paper I will revisit the debate over pornography by doing three things: (a) I will suggest a more sophisticated, two‐dimensional set of distinctions between positons in the debate; (b) I will then go on to attack both libertarians and the group I call “repressive feminists”; and (c) I will conclude by suggesting that by means of Hume's theory of sympathy we could support a limited form of censorship to bring women more fully into our moral and political community. I turn first to the labors of definition.