Kantian Ethics and Claims of Detachment

This paper develops and assesses a set of criticisms of Kantian ethics that claim that Kantian ethics involves detachment: detachment from other persons, detachment from our own projects, and detachment from our emotions and feelings. These criticisms are often, though by no means always, developed as feminist objections and although I do not focus on them as feminist objections, I assess the claim that a particular objection draws sustenance from feminism. My broader aim is to show that Kant's ethics is more congenial to feminism than is usually thought.