Kantian Ethics Flashcards
Freedom, or ?, is at the heart of Kant’s ethics, placing consent at the heart of a Kantian approach to sexual ethics, focusing on the worth of the two human beings involved, encouraging them to be attentive to each other and not treat each other as a means to and end, for pleasure or ? ? They look forward to the ? of Ends where people respect marriage bonds.
Autonomy.
Social convenience.
Kingdom.
Any sexual act that isn’t ?, including tape and forced marriage, would be prohibited. The human person’s of the highest moral worth for Kant, and must be treated with dignity, sex that objectifies s person and doesn’t express the utmost consideration for them would be ?, because sexual relationships must be based on equality.
Consensual.
Unethical.
? ethics offers principles that can be used to formulate rules governing sexual behaviour. Traditional rules prohibited sex outside of marriage and homosexual sex.
Kantian.
It’s possible that the Kantian principle of treating every human person with dignity would require all sexual relationship to be treated ?
Equally.
Additional rules might focus on the importance of ?, freely given consent, commitment and exclusivity.
Mutuality.
Our actions must be ? and these principles can be applied to all relationships, irrespective of the gender of the participants in the relationship or whether the couple are married or not. Universalising reproduction as a requirement of sex would make homosexual sex ?
Universalisable.
Unethical.
Premarital and extramarital sex involve sexual relationships that are outside ? social rules. If you believe social rules exist to protect the vulnerable, sex not governed by those rules’s more risky for some; it opens up the possibility that the person with less power in the relationship’ll be abused.
Normative.
Although allowing premarital and extramarital sex increases the individual freedom, something Kant thought was important, it also increase the requirement for the individuals involved to conduct themselves ethically and take their moral duty towards others seriously, another ? ? for ?
Central concern.
Kant.
