Kant's categorical imperative and Aristotle's natural teleology both historically rationalized slavery and gender subordination, demonstrating that fixed first principles resist corrective revision.
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Natural teleology(the justification some use against same-sex relationships)
The idea that things in nature have a built-in purpose or endpoint they're 'supposed' to reach—for example, claiming reproduction between a man and woman is nature's intended purpose.
Rationalized(as used to describe how philosophers justified unjust practices)
Provided logical-sounding justifications or explanations for something (often to make something harmful seem acceptable).
categorical imperative(Groundwork, 4.421, 429)
The moral law requiring that one will the maxim of an action as a universal law (removing any self-preference) and treat humanity in any person always as an end and never merely as a means
first principles(The foundational class of certain knowledge in Scotus's epistemology)
Judgments that are self-evidently true upon intellectual formation, requiring no prior derivation