Kant 10/13

What immediately struck me most was Kant’s views on sexuality. He is of the opinion that marriage is not and cannot be strictly for procreation, because the marriage would be necessarily dissolved once procreation was no longer possible. Marriage is instead for “sexual enjoyment”, and offspring is just one possible end result. For his time, this was a pretty racy idea!

Something seems “off” about his idea of ownership, specifically the definition, but I can’t put my finger on it. However, I agree with most, if not all, of the conclusions he draws, though the specifics of “Private Right” seem long-winded and superfluous.

“Public Right” on the other hand was very interesting; I liked his idea that each branch of government must depend on another, even though it would not be difficult for such a state to fall into a gear-grinding bureaucracy. I am not sure whether or not he is serious about his concept of ruler, so I won’t comment on that until I learn more.