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- Among his moralized and teleologically informed condemnations of most kinds of sexual desire and activity, Kant says that ethically permissible sex occurs only within marriage and comprises only procreative sexual activities since “one may not, at least, act contrary to that [natural] end” (MM 6: 426).
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Jun 5, 2012 · Kant uses this traditional doctrine as a ground for condemning, with appalling harshness, what he regards as “unnatural” sex acts, including homosexuality, bestiality, and masturbation. Type Chapter
Kant on sex gives most philosophers the following associations: a lifelong celibate philosopher; a natural teleological view of sexuality; a strange incorporation of this natural teleological account within his freedom-based moral theory; and a stark ethical condemnation of most sexual activity.
Nov 29, 2017 · Kant’s comments on sexuality are commonly found to be at best perplexing and at worst extraordinarily unenlightened and morally offensive. Varden starts by reconstructing what seems to be Kant’s view on sexuality as well as providing an overview of the...
- Helga Varden
- helga.varden@gmail.com
- 2017
Jul 5, 2018 · Immanuel Kant (Lectures on Ethics) considered it the only inclination that cannot satisfy the Categorical Imperative, and Jean-Paul Sartre claimed that sexual desire aims to capture the other’s freedom (1943: pt. III, ch. 3]).
May 27, 2020 · Kant explicitly views sexual activity as inherently morally problematic, maintaining as ethically permissible only heterosexual procreative sexual activity within the confines of legal marriage.
Among his moralized and teleologically informed condemnations of most kinds of sexual desire and activity, Kant says that ethically permissible sex occurs only within marriage and comprises only procreative sexual activities since “one may not, at least, act contrary to that [natural] end” (MM 6: 426).
May 27, 2020 · I explain how Kant’s full account of human nature, including his teleological arguments, in combination with how we use the imagination aesthetically when being sexual, loving, or gendered inform his account of the traditional gender ideals of the man and the woman: the man associated with the idea of the sublime; the woman with that of the ...
