O que é uma mulher?

Authors

  • Maria BORGES

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2023.v11n1.p129

Keywords:

gender, women, beautiful, sublime, morality, sensibility

Abstract

In this article, I will analyze the conception of the female gender in Kant. I will start from the distinction between the
beautiful and the sublime, showing what it means to be the fair sex for Kant. I will show that beautiful morality is based on moral
feelings and implies an inability to act according to principles. In a second moment, I will show what are the feminine virtues,
relating them to the promotion of culture and social refinement. Finally, I will analyze in what sense the sensible morality that Kant
attributes to women could be found in contemporary feminist philosophy, especially in the ethics of care.

Author Biography

  • Maria BORGES

     Maria Borges is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). She was Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Humboldt Universität (Germany) and Columbia University (USA). She is researcher of the CNPq/Brazil. She published many articles, including “What can Kant teach us about emotions” (The Journal of Philosophy, 2004) and “Physiology and the Controlling of Affects in Kant’s Philosophy” (Kantian Review, 2008). She also published the book Body and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant (Bloomsbury, 2019). She is also is the author of the following books in Portuguese: História e Metafísica em Hegel/History and Metaphysics in Hegel (1998), Amor/ Love (2004), Atualidade de Hegel/Actuality of Hegel (2008), co-author of O que você precisa saber sobre Ética/All you should know about Ethics (2003), and the co-editor of Kant: Liberdade e Natureza/ Kant: Freedom and Nature (2005), and Filosofia: Machismo e Feminismo/ Philosophy: Sexism and Feminism (EdUFSC, 2014). Her philosophical interests are German idealism, Kantian ethics, theory of emotions and feminist philosophy.

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Published

2023-06-19

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Artigos / Articles

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O que é uma mulher?. (2023). Kantian Studies (EK), 11(1), 129. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2023.v11n1.p129