ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests two elements of such an ethics of desire. One way of exploring this desire would be to attempt a phenomenological exploration of the way in which ‘we’ love our children. An ethics of desire belongs to what has been called a theory of morality in the broad sense. Liberal moral philosophy on the contrary proposes a theory of morality in the narrow sense, i.e. of the minimum of morality that is needed to provide as many people as possible with an equal freedom to develop their own life and their own moral convictions, their own morality in the broad sense. Instead of suggesting that a liberal moral philosophy excludes the question of the moral meaning and value of personal desires, the author also suggests that liberalism needs an ethics of desire.
