%0 Journal Article
%T Sidgwick and the Morality of Purity
%A Francesco Orsi
%J Revue d¡¯¨¦tudes Benthamiennes
%D 2012
%I Centre Bentham
%R 10.4000/etudes-benthamiennes.604
%X Cet article apporte un ¨¦clairage analytique sur les id¨¦es de Sidgwick en mati¨¨re de morale sexuelle. Pour Sidgwick, le plaisir sexuel n¡¯est pas mauvais en tant que tel, ni intrins¨¨quement, ni intuitivement, ni m¨ºme de fa on d¨¦rivative. Mais ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦poque o¨´ il ¨¦crit, il en vient ¨¤ penser qu¡¯il est pr¨¦f¨¦rable de conserver la notion de   puret¨¦   en morale, car aller ¨¤ rebours des id¨¦es communes en mati¨¨re d¡¯¨¦thique sexuelle peut entra ner des cons¨¦quences plus graves. Comme Sidgwick lui-m¨ºme nous y invite, l¡¯article contraste ensuite ses id¨¦es avec celles de John Stuart Mill. Enfin, il montre comment l¡¯¨¦thique sexuelle de Sidgwick se rapporte directement ¨¤ ses affirmations sur la morale ¨¦sot¨¦rique et sur le dualisme de la raison pratique. The aim of this work is to bring analytically to light Sidgwick¡¯s complex views on sexual morality. Sidgwick saw nothing intrinsically, self-evidently, and even derivatively wrong in getting sexual pleasure for its own sake. However, the overall consequences of attempting to modify common sense in matters of sexual ethics seemed to him to be worse, at his time, than retaining the moral category of purity. Sidgwick¡¯s view is then contrasted with John Stuart Mill¡¯s, whom he directly mentions in this connection. Finally, I discuss how Sidgwick¡¯s ethics of sex relates closely to his claims about esoteric morality and to the dualism of practical reason.
%K Sidgwick
%K Ethics of Sex
%K Utilitarianism
%K Purity
%K Self-evidence
%K John Stuart Mill
%K utilitarisme
%K Sidgwick
%K ¨¦thique sexuelle
%K puret¨¦
%K evidence
%K John Stuart Mill
%U http://etudes-benthamiennes.revues.org/604