Kantian ethics

• what is Kantian ethics thoughts on extra-marital sex?


  Kant is concerned that human beings are not used, that they are always treated with dignity. Extra-marital sex involve sexual relationships that are outside normative social rules. If you believe social rules exist to protect the vulnerable, sex not governed by those rules is more risky for some; it opens up the possibility that the person with less power in the relationship will be abused.
• how does freedom link to this?

  allowing extra-marital sex increases individual freedom which is important to Kant, but it also increases the requirement for the individuals involved to conduct themselves ethically and take their moral duty towards others seriously.
• what are Kant's thoughts on adultery?


  Adultery is specifically extramarital sex. If you universalized the concept of adultery, and everyone had sex with people regardless of whether they were married or not, being married would not mean anything. Whilst it is possible to imagine a society where people have casual sexual relationships, it is logically self-contradictory to imagine one where people constantly have sex with people who are married to someone else. If that were the case, being married wouldn’t mean anything.
• what is a strength?


  Kant believed that sex outside marriage led women to being abused and treated as things as opposed to partners if they were married first.