Friendship, love, and family

comments on sex, love, and Gender by Helga Varden

Autores

  • Alice MACLACHLAN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2023.v11n1.p167

Palavras-chave:

Kant, Helga Varden, Sexuality, Family, Love

Resumo

Helga Varden’s Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory is a sweeping and systematic tour de force – an account of our sexual and gendered human nature, grounded in Kantian theory, that is courageously comprehensive in scope, carefully rigorous in its attention to the details of Kantian philosophy, and refreshingly forthright in its author’s unwillingness to be limited by Kant’s own failings. As a contemporary argument for the value and relevance of Kant on Sex, it is overwhelmingly successful. Nevertheless, in this response, I raise three topics on which I remain unconvinced by Varden’s reconstructed Kant: namely, the duty of truthfulness in the context of sexual identity, the absence of family in her account (and his), and the implications of speech that harms.

Biografia do Autor

  • Alice MACLACHLAN

    Alice MacLachlan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, where she writes and teaches in moral, political, and feminist philosophy. She is also Co-Editor of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. Her recent publications include “‘Mere Talk,’ Accountability, and Repair: Arendt and Bar On on Civility” (2023), “Rude Inquiry: Should Philosophy Be More Polite?” (2021), “Apologizing for Evil” (2020), and “Pandemic Parenting,” with Ami Harbin (2020).

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Publicado

2023-06-16

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Autor encontra críticos / Author meets critics

Como Citar

Friendship, love, and family: comments on sex, love, and Gender by Helga Varden. (2023). Estudos Kantianos [EK], 11(1), 167. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2023.v11n1.p167