PHIL 1290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Sexual Activity

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Degradation of human nature destruction of moral relations. Appetite: object of indulgence the word appetite is too broad. You need to eat and drink to live, not sex. Kant says: desires the sex of another (the body) Body + self = whole person (humanity) Marriage is two bodies own each other. Wife has only a portion of her husband. Sex is a means to achieve the end of love, communication. Sex is being in contact with another person in a pleasurable way. There"s pain doesn"t mean there"s no pleasure (enough pleasure is needed to keep it going) Kant love is good, sex (appetite) is nasty; goldman sex is not necessarily bad. Love and sex can be conjoined but are fundamentally different: romantic love, family love, love between friends. No moral reasons for love and sex to go together. There shouldn"t be a double standard (ex. men or women sleeping with other people) Sex itself isn"t in the moral category.

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