By Timo Airaksinen
The Marquis de Sade is known for his forbidden novels like Justine, Juliette, and the 120 Days of Sodom. but, regardless of Sade's colossal effect on philosophy and literature, his paintings continues to be particularly unknown. His novels are too lengthy, repetitive, and violent. eventually in The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade, a exceptional thinker presents a theoretical analyzing of Sade. Airaksinen examines Sade's declare that during order to feel free and loose we needs to do evil issues. He discusses the motivations of the common Sadean hero, who leads a lifestyles jam-packed with perverted and severe pleasures, akin to stealing, homicide, rape, and blasphemy. Secondary assets on Sade, corresponding to Hobbes, Erasmusm, and Brillat-Savarin are analyzed, and smooth stories are evaluated. The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade drastically complements our realizing of Sade and his philosophy of soreness and perversion.
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The possibility of the weakness of the will is a logical problem, while that of Poe-perversity is not. The person did not want to go home at noon, because he was going to break his promise. He is accustomed to break his promises because of some stimulus-quality in such decisions. But the decision-like event is not guided by another, higher case-specific value. The person just breaks the norm and enjoys it. It is Sade’s task to tell a convincing story of this anomic possibility. However, I do not believe that one can develop a non-empirical and analytical theory of perversion.
A perverse person’s conduct creates harm necessarily, as the result of his action and not only as its consequence. What is the difference here between “results” and “consequences”? Closing a window results in a closed window, and has the consequence of reducing the draught in the room. In the same way, a wicked action always results in harm and may also have harm as its consequence. Or it may even show a net benefit. Since, however, the consequences do not really matter, we are dealing here with a non-consequentialist normative framework.
Nevertheless, this hypothesis is refuted by the fact that such a law applies only to some people and not to others; or to put this point more accurately, its application varies enormously with regard to people with different moral, intellectual, and social statuses. A person may play around with the principle and utilize it for his own personal advantage. A wicked person may destroy others and flourish as well. Such a person may also claim that the principle of nature operates through his decisions, and may benefit from this idea.
