Immanuel Kant's Views On Sexual Objectification
Immanuel Kant
Kant’s views on sexual objectification plays quite an influential role in the discussions of contemporary feminists. According to him when sexuality is practiced outside the context of monogamous marriage it becomes extremely problematic as it ultimately results in objectification. He stated in his “Lectures on Ethics” that a loved person is made an object of appetite by sexual love. He says that no sooner the appetite is stilled when the person is cast aside. To explain this he gave the example of lemon, saying the way one casts away lemon after it has been sucked dry a person is also casted away after the appetite is stilled. Stating this he says as soon as a person becomes an object of appetite for another, all motives of moral
Kant’s views on sexual objectification plays quite an influential role in the discussions of contemporary feminists. According to him when sexuality is practiced outside the context of monogamous marriage it becomes extremely problematic as it ultimately results in objectification. He stated in his “Lectures on Ethics” that a loved person is made an object of appetite by sexual love. He says that no sooner the appetite is stilled when the person is cast aside. To explain this he gave the example of lemon, saying the way one casts away lemon after it has been sucked dry a person is also casted away after the appetite is stilled. Stating this he says as soon as a person becomes an object of appetite for another, all motives of moral