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Kant and The Marriage Right*
Author(s) -
Wilson Donald
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2004.00190.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , focus (optics) , action (physics) , epistemology , philosophy , institution , politics , law and economics , law , sociology , political science , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , optics
The provision of a marriage right is a distinctive aspect of Kant's political philosophy and seems, initially, difficult to reconcile with the general concern with ensuring external freedom of action apparent in the universal principle of Right and the sole innate right said to follow from this principle. I claim that this provision can be regarded as consistent with this general focus and that Kant's treatment of issue suggests an interesting secular argument for the institution of marriage.