without violating their right of person “In the doctrine of right it was shown that the human being cannot make use of another person to get this pleasure apart from a special limitation by a contract establishing the right, by which two persons put each other under obligation” (Gregor 178). Because of the natural and social weakness of women compared to men, Kant views the marriage contract as the only means of redressing this unalterable inequality. Women, it seems, cannot voluntarily redress this inequality in any other way than through the form
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