Adultery / A Kantian Perspective

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...Proper Attribution to as a Source Kant on Adultery Immanuel Kant would subscribe to the idea that adultery is unethically wrong in our society based on the view that ethics is a duty of all its members to the laws established by that society, but also the moral responsibility of the individual to incorporate these laws into a personal ethic. This view is found in the Introduction To The Metaphysic Of Morals written in 1785. Specifically, Kant discusses the metaphysical scientific division regarding humanity's bond to obligation. Kant places credence on "the relation[ship] of men to men," and states that there is no viable relationship in society for a being "who has only rights and no duties" (God). In discussion the nature in humanity, Kant states that desire and aversion are connected to pleasure and pain, or feeling. But, he states, that "the converse does not always hold." In his reasoning he states that pleasure is connected, not with the object of desire, but with the mental representation of pleasure, in spite of the fact that the object of desire exists or does not exist. In applying this theory to adultery, we can...

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