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fpq-3116	Varden, Helga	Kant on Sex. Reconsidered. -- A Kantian account of sexuality: sexual love, sexual identity, and sexual orientation	2018	34	.pdf	application/pdf	16231	673	52	Rather what we have a duty to do in these regards—what Kant calls the “duty of apathy” (6: 408)—is to be able to be around strong affects and emotions without immediately acting on them and generally not simply to live our lives as dictated by our affects.12 Moreover, growing in these emotional and moral ways is obviously not an end- project; being engaged in it, becoming better at it, challenging oneself not only to 11 Relatedly, in the second Critique Kant clarifies that rational self-love “merely infringes upon [animalistic] self-love, inasmuch as it only restricts it, as natural and active in us even prior to the moral law” (Kant 1996a, CPrR 5: 73). Part 2 (“Reconsidering Kant on Sex”) develops important elements of Kant’s own account, arguing that a more plausible account of morally justifiable, emotionally healthy human sexuality that encompasses also the sexual identities and orientations of LGBTQIA can be found without abandoning Kant’s basic philosophical framework.3 1.	cache/fpq-3116.pdf	txt/fpq-3116.txt