Short Communication
Volume 4 Issue 5
Abstract
The article "The Oddities and Origins of Human Sexuality" sets out the concept of sexuality, which is quite popular in our time, based on the ideas of the biological approach and psychoanalysis. The author analyzes these ideas in terms of grounds and consequences. The main provisions of the article are opposed to other provisions. Man is not only a biological being, but also a social, psychological, semiotic, spiritual, cultural, that is, a multidimensional centaur. In addition to the biological plane, evolution contains a socio-cultural plan. Love and sexuality are a cultural, historical and psychological phenomenon, in the formation and development of which such factors as the change of culture, types of individuality and personality, the nature of semiosis (sign systems, schemes, works of art) play an important role. However, criticism of the article "The Oddities and Origins of Human Sexuality" does not mean a desire to ban the ideas expressed in it. The presence in modern culture of different channels of socialization and ways of life, liberal democratic values and institutions presuppose, as Kant wrote, freedom in expressing one's opinions and beliefs.
Keywords: love; sexuality; person; personality; culture; semiosis; understanding; interpretation; approach; thinking
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