Twilight and Philosophy

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Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality. Wiley. Kindle Edition. Housel, Rebecca (2009).
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  1. ineffable
    defying expression or description
    It is a force like no other: inescapable, ineffable, and absolute—at least for mere mortals.
  2. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
    But there's something a bit disingenuous about Edward calling his food reference an "analogy,” since he really did want to make a meal of Bella.
  3. utilitarianism
    the doctrine that the useful is the good
    The prime directive, for a Utilitarian, is to maximize the balance of happiness over misery, taking into account all individuals who can feel happiness or misery.
  4. social contract
    an agreement that results in the organization of society
    To see the difference, we need to borrow a few basic ideas from the social contract tradition in ethics and political philosophy—the tradition founded by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) in the sixteenth century and John Locke (1632- 1704) in the seventeenth.
  5. concupiscence
    a desire for sexual intimacy
    “concupiscence.” That was their word for the perfectly natural and spontaneous movement of desire toward pleasurable things, like food and sex.
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