Secular Thinming On Sexual Ethics Flashcards
Social protections provided by the ? of marriage laws came to be viewed as social restraints on freedom by some.
Christianisation.
In “On Liberty”, ? ? argued that individuals should be protected from unnecessary legal oversight (tyranny of political power) and from social attitudes of the masses (tyranny of the majority) and should be free to behave as they choose to as long as no one else’s harmed by their behaviour, maintaining that the prevention of harm was the only justification for restraining an individual.
J.S. Mill.
Mill envisaged a ? ? ?, and was concerned at the extent to which religion forbids certain behaviours and sought to make ? ? available to the poor, something prohibited by Christian Churches at the time.
Free liberal society.
Artificial contraception.
Mill wasn’t opposed to marriage and fought for women’s rights and gender equality, believing marriage to be an equal partnership and was concerned that the legal, Christian conception of marriage placed constraints on women, oppressing them, arguing that society, via the institution of marriage, relegated women to the status of slaves, saying that divorce was used exclusively by men to rid themselves of their ?
Wives.
Many countries continue to regulate ? ? legally. Today a woman can file for divorce just as easily as a man, ? and having children outside of wedlock’s common, it’s illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality, and same-sex marriage is legal. Open marriage’s are rare, and ? ? are illegal in the UK. Society continues to support the values of consent and exclusivity within sexual relationships, although not necessarily within traditional concepts of marriage between a man and a woman.
Sexual relationships.
Cohabitation.
Polygamous marriages.
? ? and ? ? go beyond the libertarian notion that the state and society should only intervene on matters that cause harm to others, developing a capabilities approach to making sense of human development, focusing on the freedoms that human beings need for well-being, including having bodily integrity (including opportunities for sexual satisfaction) and emotional attachments to things and people outside ourselves; to love those who love and care for us, including not having one’s emotional development blighted by fear and anxiety.
Amartya Sen.
Martha Nussbaum.
If human well-being requires people to be able to have opportunities for sexual satisfaction and to love and be loved, there’s an ? argument that human beings should be free to establish consensual sexual relationships with whomsoever they choose, as long as no one’s harmed by those ?
Ardent.
Relationships.
