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...Duties Toward the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse," a portion of his Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant made a powerful argument against sexual relations out-of-wedlock. The argument is all the more hard-hitting when one reflects that Kant is considered to be a father of modern liberalism. Suggesting that the rights of sexual partners to each other could only be secured by marital commitment, Kant argued that "there must be a basis for restraining our freedom in the use we make of our inclinations so that they conform to the principles of morality." This is at odds...
What I encountered in the first essay, "The Pursuit of the Ideal," was a magical world of thought that seemed to me wonderful but overly complex. After all, I had not even heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more...
...particular, Bala said that there were similarities between the moral theory of Immanuel Kant and philosophies in the Bhagavad Gita...
Muralidharan, however, said that he was reluctant to infer from the similarities that Kant had been directly influenced by Hindu texts...
Foreign Cultures 23a and 23b, (two semesters to meet one requirement,) cover readings from Wagner, Nietzsche, Kafka, Einstein and Freud. Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice," includes Kant and Locke...