PHIL 1290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gambling, Polyamory, Majoritarianism
Document Summary
The appetite for enjoying another human being : through sex, the person becomes an object of indulgence. Love involves good will, joy, happiness: but a love that springs from sexual impulse cannot be love at all. Kant distinguishes love and sex: love is not an animal function, sex is . Sex by itself is a degradation of human nature: can"t do away with sex, need to perpetuate species. In sex, we don"t desire the person as a whole, only sex organs (second formulation of the categorical imperative) Morally restricts what you can do with your body: might have ability, and the desire but shouldn"t do some things. Kant says that masturbation is inappropriate: claims it to be self-abuse, degrading. Not morally free to risk the dignity of personhood; risk giving yourself to base desires. Rational part of our being regulates passions. Defines the person as a combination of body and self.
