Questions tagged [marriage]
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What is an overview of utilitarian arguments in support of exclusive relationships?
In light of the lack of success with my previous question Is exclusivity optimal from a utilitarian perspective? What's wrong with being non-exclusive?, I’d like to vindicate the topic by asking, ...
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Is exclusivity optimal from a utilitarian perspective? What's wrong with being non-exclusive? [closed]
Infidelity is typically regarded as a moral transgression, but it cannot exist without a prior promise of exclusivity.
This prompts the question: why is exclusivity so highly valued in the first place?...
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Are there utilitarian arguments showing a society with only loving heterosexual marriages achieves greater utility than all other alternatives?
Option 1: A hypothetical society where only loving heterosexual marriages exist.
Option 2: Any other society that deviates from the hypothetical ideal set forth by Option 1, by including, for example, ...
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Did any ancient Greek philosophers condemn fornication?
Did any ancient Greek philosophers condemn fornication (illicit sexual intercourse outside of marriage) or marital infidelity?
Plato was against acts of sodomy, saying they are "contrary to ...
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What is marriage? [closed]
Love? (many people romantically love one another without marriage)
Commitment? (many marriage partners don't recognize themselves as "committed" in that context)
Mutual residence? (we won't ...
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Kant and infidelity or monogamy
It seems to me that if everyone refused to say when a monogamous relationship was over, refused to tell someone of their affairs, and so on, then no monogamous relationships could exist. If ...
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determine a secular lawyerly/philosophical argument that solely upholds the traditional male-female marriage institute's values
I was trying to determine a secular lawyerly/philosophical argument that solely upholds the traditional male-female marriage institute's values. In other words, an argument that could be upheld in a ...
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What philosophers believed marriage is man's ultimate perfection?
It seems Plato believed this when he says, through Aristophanes in the Symposium:
After the division [by Zeus,] the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their ...
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Why did Hegel consider Kant's definition of marriage crude and shameful?
Why did Hegel* consider Kant's definition of marriage crude and shameful?
Kant** defines marriage as:
the union between two persons of opposite sex with a view to the lifelong reciprocal possession ...
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Did Plato not believe in institution of marriage?
From this link, I've found this
“all these women shall be wives in common to all the men, and not one of them shall live privately with any man; the children too should be held in common so that no ...
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Thales's views on marriage and sexuality
What were Thales's views on marriage and sexuality?
Allegedly, when someone asked him why he didn't have children, he replied "Because I am fond of children."
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