For the Kantian ethical subject, emotional and social bonds imperil objectivity and undermine rational commitment to duty.
On that picture, the promising convention is composed of rules that are productive of the best circumstances, and as such deserve obedience not from rational, but from moral duty (cf. Rawls 1955).
Thus, Thoughts appears to be torn between several sets of binaries, such as compliance and rebellion; spiritual meekness and rational independence; and domestic duty and political participation.
We owe a duty to rationality by virtue of being rational agents; therefore, rational moral principle apply to all rational agents at all times.
"I conceive it to be the duty of every rational creature to attend to its offspring," Wollstonecraft wrote in "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters," in 1787, ten years before giving birth to the author of "Frankenstein".
In particular, recall that many bioethicists ground informed consent in duties to treat rational, autonomous persons respectfully.
John Gardner argues that there is no "across-the-board-duty to be rational, so our irrationality as such wrongs no one".
One such approach is a task-shifting strategy, defined as the rational distribution of primary care duties from physicians to non-physician healthcare providers.
Judges in rational-basis cases routinely abandon their constitutional duty to seek truth and instead work to rationalize the government's actions.
Rational women would perceive their real duties.
Like Clarke's, Christian Wolff's rationalist practical philosophy also grounds moral duties in an objective rational order.
