![]() ![]() ![]() If gravity worked differently for men and women, or for Italians and Egyptians, we could not speak of it as a law. He reasoned that for moral rules to be laws, they had to be universally applicable. What might those rules be? Here Kant devised the cleverest trick in all moral philosophy. But the rational part of us, Kant said, can follow a different kind of law: It can respect rules of conduct, and so people (but not lions) can be judged morally for the degree to which they respect the right rules. There is no morality in nature there is only causality. The animal part of us follows the laws of nature, just as does a falling rock or a lion killing its prey. ![]() “Like Plato, Kant believed that human beings have a dual nature: part animal and part rational. ![]()
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