Rated at the top of the list by the New Scientist magazine, Darwin's Sacred Cause, by Darwin biographers Adrian Desmond and James Moore, controversially located Darwin's motivation for his theory of evolution in his repugnance for the slave trade and his desire to show the ancestral brotherhood of all men.
And so an order written in the perishable ink of political trickery and wrapped in a clumsy maneuver to make it seem that we, a small group of journalists, were working in Cuba as allies of drug traffickers and procurers and salaried mercenaries of the United States, yields only a cocktail of repugnance in me.
A bit of me still recoils in a mixture of repugnance and disbelief at the idea that it's going to be the world's leading brands that will rescue us from the slow but inexorable slide into ecological disaster.
It consists in a "transition from repugnance to fear, from fear to sympathy, and from sympathy itself to humility".
There is, however, a tactical advantage in applying the wisdom of repugnance to the stem-cell debate, in that it skirts the familiar theological argument that a manipulated egg is a human life.
China knows that memories of Nazi Germany evoke a more visceral repugnance in the West than do those of the Soviet Union.
Even in her physical repugnance for Hughes, Plath never doubts his gifts as a poet, but his glamour is fatally lessened: "Ted looked slovenly: his suit jacket wrinkled as if being pulled from behind, his pants hanging, unbelted, in great folds, his hair black & greasy...
If a thing is negatively finite, it is finite "though there be no repugnance in its having it [infinitude] from elsewhere" (301 302, brackets added).
Curiously, it seems that for both the positively and negatively stimulating Schopenhauer does not believe that we may intellectually detach ourselves from our attraction, lust or repugnance in order to contemplate these aesthetically.
