Kant was an asshole

There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. You want us to draw the conclusion that we should be suspicious of other things Kant says. On the issue of whether children, spouses, and servants are possessed in a way akin to objects, Kant may explicitly deny it in some places but he also explicitly states it repeatedly: e. Kant's concern here, however, is manifestly restricted to the killing of illegitimate infants by their unmarried mothers and has to do not with the child's juridical status but with the way the mother's act of homicide is to be viewed. Kantian Ethics isn't broad enough to be universalized. This was by no means an isolated incident: every few weeks I found myself raising eyebrows by asking skeptical questions of one kind or another. I never got what people's problem with utilitarianism is.

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