V1.1 – April 2018
Notes:
- Page numbers refer to print edition.
- Every effort was made to keep page numbers from changing from version 1.0 to 1.1.
- Typos and small grammatical changes that do not change content were not tracked.
- There were no major changes to content.
Changes:
- Minor changes.
- Fixed formatting issues for page numbers.
- Page 3. Added endnote. Reference to Plato’s Protagoras to support statement that Socrates believed that to know the good entailed doing it.
- Page 23. Clarified sentence.
- Original: However, since we live in the real world, the consequences of our actions do matter.
- Revised: Since we live in the real world, the consequences of our actions matter.
- Page 23. Removed ambiguity in footnote by clarifying Kant is origin of quote.
- Page 30. Removed repetition.
- Original: “While we all naturally use the hierarchy as adults, we were not born with one. Creating a hierarchy of values is a conscious choice and something that we must do, and constantly redo, as we grow and our values change. We are not born with one, nor do we see infants creating them.”
- Revised: “While we all naturally use the hierarchy as adults, we were not born with one, nor do we see infants creating them. Creating a hierarchy of values is a conscious choice and something that we must do, and constantly redo, as we grow and our values change.”
- Page 54. Removed awkward phrasing:
- Original: “We showed there that philosophers were united in the belief sexuality stood in opposition to reason, although their responses to this were different with the Resistant and Abstinent camps taking sexuality to be opposed to morality while the Indulgent camp thought that sexuality and pleasure exhausted morality.”
- Revised: “We showed there that philosophers were united in the belief that sexuality stood in opposition to reason, although their responses to this were different: the Resistant and Abstinent camps took sexuality to be opposed to morality, while the Indulgent camp thought that sexuality and pleasure exhausted morality.”
- Page 59. Clarified sentence:
- Original: “It is only through understanding the deeper operation of emotions that we can hope to grasp these interesting and complex examples or, indeed, understand emotions in our own lives.”
- Revised: “It is only through understanding the deeper operation of emotions that we can hope to grasp these interesting and complex examples or be able to understand emotions in our own lives.”
- Page 166. Clarified footnote:
- Original: “Lest we paint too rosy a picture of the sexual life of Ancient Greece, their treatment of woman was (generally) not good. There were many cities in which women had heavy restrictions and may not even have been eligible to leave the house without her father’s or husband’s consent or to own property. Certainly, many Western cultures are much better on these points today, although sadly there are still cultures where women are oppressed.”
- Revised: “Lest we paint too rosy a picture of the sexual life of Ancient Greece, their treatment of woman was (generally) not good. There were many cities in which women had heavy restrictions and may not even have been eligible to leave the house without her father’s or husband’s consent or to own property. Thankfully, many Western cultures are much better (although not perfect) on these points today.”
- Page 52. Chapter 1, Section 7, Subsection heading: “Our most Precious Creation” to “Our Most Precious Creation”
- Page 195. Clarified pronoun.
- Original: “Without understanding erousia, we would have been unable to really understand them at all.”
- Revised: “Without understanding erousia, we would have been unable to really understand the societal sex roles at all.”
- Page 195. Footnote ii, removed double negative:
- Original: “For my own part, I do not have a strong position on the issue of transsexualism, since I do not think the science on the subject is inconclusive.”
- Revised: “For my own part, I do not have a strong position on the issue of transsexualism, since I do not think the science on the subject is yet conclusive.”
- Page 202. Clarified sentence.
- Original: “Broadly, in this chapter we took a critical look at some of the terms commonly used in sexual discussions, found them lacking, and introduced new terms to pick up the philosophic slack.”
- Revised: “Broadly, in this chapter we took a critical look at some of the concepts commonly used in sexual discussions, found them lacking, and introduced new concepts to pick up the philosophic slack.”
- Added Leonard Peikoff’s Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. (Accidentally omitted in v1.0).
V1.0 – Feb 2018 (Launch)
- Initial launch