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Kant On Moral Agency and Women's Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2011

Mari Mikkola
Mari Mikkola*
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Abstract

Some commentators have condemned Kant's moral project from a feminist perspective based on Kant's apparently dim view of women as being innately morally deficient. Here I will argue that although his remarks concerning women are unsettling at first glance, a more detailed and closer examination shows that Kant's view of women is actually far more complex and less unsettling than that attributed to him by various feminist critics. My argument, then, undercuts the justification for the severe feminist critique of Kant's moral project.

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Kantian Review , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 08 March 2011 , pp. 89 - 111
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Copyright © Kantian Review 2011

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