Kierkegaard’s doctrine denies reflective agency to women in marriage

Evidence

As for the wife, reason is not her lot, she is without “reflection”; so “she goes from the immediacy of love to the immediacy of the religious.” Expressed in simple language, this doctrine means a man in love chooses marriage by an act of faith in God that guarantees him the accord of both feelings and duty; and the woman wishes to marry as soon as she is in love. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1159

Categorization

• XREF: Beauvoir’s point that woman moves from immediacy to immediacy, skipping reflection, connects to her whole account of woman as stuck in immanence. — connects to: Traditional marriage confines woman to immanence and denies her transcendence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196; Marriage denies woman the particularity of desire that man retains as citizen — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1135; Marriage confirms masculine existence but constitutes feminine existence itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1108
• SEED: An essay angle: the gendered distribution of reflection in the philosophical marriage debate — who gets to think about marriage versus who merely falls into it.

Broader Connections

• Traditional marriage confines woman to immanence and denies her transcendence #corroborates (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1196
• Marriage denies woman the particularity of desire that man retains as citizen #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1135
• Marriage confirms masculine existence but constitutes feminine existence itself #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1108