Overview
- Serves as and introduction to Kant's ethics and the moral debate concerning same-sex marriage
- Outlines how approval of the moral permissibility of same-sex marriage fits within a Kantian conception of the good life
- Defends the thesis that Kant’s normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Same-Sex Marriage Debate & Some Basics of Kant’s Ethics
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Front Matter
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Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Kant’s Ethics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Case Against Same-sex Marriage
- Different Species of Love in Kant
- Distinctive Human Faculties
- Distinguishing Sex from Gender
- Feeling, Desire, Reason
- Good Will and Kantian Virtue
- Heteronomous Principles of Action
- Homosexuality and Marriage
- Human Predispositions to Good
- Human Propensity to Radical Evil
- In Support of Same-sex Marriage
- Kant and Same-Sex Marriage
- Kant on Ethics, Sex, and Marriage
- Kantian Ethics and Same Sex-Marriage
- Kantian Philosophical Anthropology
- Kant’s Account of Sexual Character
- Marriage as an Institution
- Moral Law and Human Autonomy
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Sex, Gender, and Nature
About this book
This book defends the thesis that Kant’s normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage. It does so by first developing a reading of Kant’s normative ethics that explains the way in which Kant’s notions of human moral imperfection unsocial sociability inform his ethical thinking. The book then offers a systematic treatment of Kant’s views of sex and marriage, arguing that Kant’s views are more defensible than some of his critics have made them out to be. Drawing on Kant’s account of marriage and his conception of moral friendship, the book argues that Kant’s ethics can be used to develop a defense of same-sex marriage.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Kant’s Ethics and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate - An Introduction
Authors: Christopher Arroyo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55733-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55731-1Published: 24 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85734-3Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55733-5Published: 16 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 184
Topics: Ethics, Family, Human Rights, Sexual Behavior