Sex in Kant

Authors

  • Maria BORGES Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501/2024.v12n1.p151

Keywords:

sex, love, objetification

Abstract

: In this article I will analyze the relationship that Kant establishes between sex and objectification. I will explore two points. First, I will try to locate the place that the sexual drive occupies. I will show that, in Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, sex is not related to love as affection or passion. Secondly, I will show that to have sex with someone is to use that person as a means, opposing readings that make Kant an advocate of the non-objectification of the sexual act. Finally, I show that the juridical relationship between two people, through marriage, makes the mutual use of sexual organs ethical, even if both are used as a means and not as an end in themselves.

Author Biography

  • Maria BORGES, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    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

2024-07-15

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024)

Section

Artigos / Articles

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Sex in Kant. (2024). Kantian Studies (EK), 12(1), 151. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501/2024.v12n1.p151