Sexual Temperance and Sexual Objectification
In
Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity? Routledge. pp. 153-167 (
2021)
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Abstract
The paper discusses Kant's view of sexual desire in connection with Aristotle's account of sexual temperance, arguing that if the Kantian view is correct, the Aristotelian account is false (or that if the Aristotelian account is true, then the Kantian view is false). One cannot be both an Aristotelian and a Kantian about the ethics of sexual desire.