Additionally, the scientific approach to love also begins to negate the emotions that arise when one falls in love, since love and passion become only hormones and chemicals present within oneself. As a result, the love present between people no longer is a special feeling, since it is degraded to the simplest biological mechanism. Through the work of science, love no longer remains some glorious miracle which occurs between two special people, but rather something which could be arranged between anybody. Thus, science also reduces people as well, since everyone is made of the same physical structures. This helps support the idea of democracy since everything is broken down to the simplest mechanism. With this viewpoint, the only things necessary for love and other emotions are the chemicals and neurotransmitters that are released.
In a similar manner, marriage and human sexuality also become degraded through this scientific perspective, since sex now only remains an urge which people have. By reducing sex, marriage also becomes negated since nothing remains sacred about human sexuality with one’s spouse, the main feature of the sacrament of marriage. Therefore, the bonds of
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Therefore, she is free to participate in this act. By showing Frate Timoteo as providing advice such as this to parishioners, Machiavelli provides a way in which the Church could benefit people, instead of trying to force its way into politics. This new method can advocate for sexuality which can lead to children in the future, since, as Zuckert describes, “it does not need to use force in order to have an effect on their opinions by appealing to their hopes and fears” (294). Rather, the church could stop forcing them to fear hell and damnation and allow people to act as they want for the most benefit to the most