Sexual ethics
- Created by: Ellen Hannah
- Created on: 17-05-14 15:29
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- Sexual ethics
- Key issues
- Consent
- Whether = intrinsically right/wrong
- 3 purposes:
- Fidelity - faithfulness
- Procreation - reproduce
- Union - binds couples together
- Pre-marital and extra-marital sex
- Pre-marital - Christian ethics - teachings of St Paul - celebacy = important to Christianity = best way to live - sexual immorality
- Best place to have sex = within marriage. Pre-marital sex = wrong
- Sex - v.strong + dangerous - when St Paul was teaching - v. promiscious - married people having sex with other+both men/women
- Most sacred relationship = with G-d. Sex distracts you from this.
- Virginity = pure - people want this from women - virgin surgery
- Catholics
- Purpose of marriage - procreate + have sex. Cohabiting = wrong. Man should leave his mother + father to bind together wife wife. Pre-marital sex = wrong
- Liberal Christians
- Pre-marital sex = O.K - as long as promise to marry within long-term relationship
- Aristotle
- Ancient greeks - Prime Mover = telos - not an immanent G-d so transendent + not a law-giver.
- Augustine
- Agreed with St Paul - live in celibacy. Sex gives you 'bodily pleasures'.
- Sin + evil exist through Adam + Eve. After Fall - original sin came into world. Sexual desire became evil act - sometimes necessary for children.
- Ideal to be celibate - Priests , nuns, etc
- Application to:
- Natural Law
- Utilitarianism
- }Pleasure is the intrinsic good. }Shared pleasure can build happiness in a relationship. }Consensual sex is what most seem to desire to be fulfilled, so maximises happiness. }Bad consequences eg STDs should be avoided. }But is consent enough to make something “good”? (eg sex with minors?). }Mill saw sex belonging to “lower pleasures”. }Harm principle eg long term pain of affairs.
- Christian ethics
- Key issues
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