Immanuel Kant: Lectures on Ethics
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"In loving from sexual inclination, they make the person into an object of their appetite. As soon as the person is possessed, and the appetite sated, they are thrown away, as one throws away a lemon after sucking the juice from it." --Immanuel Kant in his Lectures on Ethics |
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Vorlesung über Moralphilosophie or Vorlesung zur Moralphilosophie (Lecture on Moral Philosophy) is a collection of lectures on ethics by Immanuel Kant, known in English as Kant's Lectures on Ethics.
Kant, I. (1997). Lectures on Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. (Notes taken by students of Kant's Lectures on Ethics 1775-80).
Die"Vorlesung uber Moralphilosophie" aus den 1770er Jahren ist eine wichtige Erlauterung und Erganzung zur "Grundlegung der Metaphysik der Sitten" von 1785.
Lectures on Ethics (hereafter LE) , trans. Louis Infield (New York: Harper and Row, 1963)
Kant's Lectures on Ethics: "If the will of all beings were so bound to sensuous impulse, the world would possess no value."
It is also the text in which he likens lust to sexual objectification, see Kant and Eros.