Reasonable Reactions to the Wrongness of Rape

21 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2016

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John Gardner

University of Oxford (deceased)

Date Written: February 1, 2016

Abstract

The short paper is a reply to bob Watt, who takes issue in an interesting way with the moral psychology implicit in my old paper 'The Wrongness of Rape' (co-authored with Stephen Shute). Watt says that Shute and I make a sideshow of the emotions by holding them answerable to reasons. I show that this charge is false. I show that it is actually Watt who makes a sideshow of the emotions by presenting them as unresponsive to reasons. I also respond to Watt's criticism of the concrete proposal that Shute and I make, namely that rape is sheer use of a person.

Keywords: rape, sex, emotion, reason, Kant, objectification

Suggested Citation

Gardner, John, Reasonable Reactions to the Wrongness of Rape (February 1, 2016). Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 7/2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2727709 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2727709

John Gardner (Contact Author)

University of Oxford (deceased)

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