Moreover, the feelings that Kant sees as most crucial to moral motivation (respect for the moral law, respect for rational nature, moral feeling) are themselves rationally-grounded, reflecting the immediate effect of the moral law on our sensibility.
Moreover, much of what we see Kant doing in the first two sections of the Groundwork is leading us from compelling assumptions about value and moral obligation, through arguments about the nature of rationality and the commitments inextricably linked to our rational nature, and to formulations of the categorical imperative.
As in the Versuch, the rational nature of man and the conditions necessary for its realization are made the standard for political philosophy.
Both an advocate for and a showman of science, he invested much of his career in improving public understanding of science and defending its rational nature.
But how does a good man play God? True to his rational nature, Fry did not run his operation on a first-come-first-served basis, through a lottery or in some other arbitrary or haphazard fashion.
The Innate Knowledge thesis offers our rational nature.
Given the essentially rational nature of the human soul and the rational nature of the Neoplatonic ontology, there is nonetheless room for optimism.
For example, Regan (2002) accepts that rational nature has supreme value but extensively criticizes the Kantian interpretation of rational nature as inadequate for that role.
For example, some authors claim that respecting rational nature entails respecting beings that have only parts of rational nature or necessary conditions of it (Wood 1998, p. 197).
Humanity, for Kant, is an individual's rational nature and capacity for rational choice.
Importantly, Shoemaker sees the capacity for self-knowledge as an essential part of our rational nature.
