Sex and Mans Struggle Against Nature :: science

devolve on and Mans Struggle Against NatureIn Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art, Camille Paglia claims temperament is inherently stronger than club. rules of order is an artificial construction, a defense against records power.a system of communicable forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. (Writing in the Disciplines 572) I agree with the volume of Paglias opinions, however, I believe that there are points that could have been elaborated on more substantially. In this essay, Paglia states that man is born evil and it is societys job to discipline him to be a good, moral person. Paglia would disagree with someone who said the motive a person murdered was because he grew up in a bad section of town, or his home life left something to be desired. On the contrary, Paglia claims it is the inner evil, the nature, of the person to kill, and it is societys lack of conditioning that releases this savage response. Society is not the criminal but the force which keeps cr ime in check. (Writing in the Disciplines 574) She claims no matter how much a person sinks into religion, or their society, nature will always have the upper hand. Paglia believes if man is left to his born(p) instincts, with no threat of societys punishment, he will be evil and identify evil deeds. In society, sexual urges can often influence a persons morality, making him second-guess his values for the sake of sexual pleasure. She also goes on to say, getting back to nature. would be to give free rein to personnel and lust. (Writing in the Disciplines 573-574) I agree that this scenario is a possible outcome, but Paglia fails to acknowledgement that with out society we would have no idea, which deeds were evil and which were not. It is society that has set the limits and told us what is evil. Before men were grouped together in societies, they roamed free with no idea of right and wrong. It wasnt until man made up his religion with its rules, regulations and laws that he had a conscious idea of evil. But I do agree with Paglia that nature is the stronger force, and no matter how much we hand over to fool ourselves into believing that society or religion can pay off us from the torment of nature, we will always be reminded of mother natures force. fine-tune man conceals from himself the extent of his subordination to nature.