SEXUAL ETHICS Flashcards
(14 cards)
How would a Kantian view Pre-Marital Sex: Formula of End in Itself
- Kant argued we should never treat people as a means to an end but only as ends in themselves
- Pre-Marital sex is arguably about fufilment of a strong sex drive not welfare of someone else
How would a Kantian view Pre-Marital Sex: Formula of Universal Law of Nature
- Asserts it is a duty for human beings to preserve life
- Therefore, sex is for reproduction
How would a Kantian view Pre-Marital Sex: Marriage
- Saw marriage as best method of regulating sex and creating offspring
- Marriage could be abused but believed sexual relationships outside of marriage create worse situation
- Leads to women being treated as things rather than partners
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?: Formula of End in Itself
the requirement that persons are respected is a useful insight and prevents a casual attitude to sex and people involved
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?: Good will
- Dicates we do something because it is right based on reasoned judgements
- Often our feelings about sexual ethics are driven by emotion and personal bias- can be misleading
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?: Absolutism and deontology
Provides clear, fixed, universal duties
What is unhelpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?: Peter Singer
Criticises Kant for removing element of sympathy and emotion from ethics
What is unhelpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?: Louis Pojman
- Shows Formula of Universal Law of Nature doesn’t work as maxims can be formed to draw contradictory conclusions
- It is surely possible to universalise maxim “It is ok to have safe, consensual, pre-marital sex.”
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?
What is helpful about the Kantian view on Pre-Marital sex?
