Rationality and Ethics

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Stephen L. Darwall
Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)

To execute the draft of a book, the main argument of which will, support the Kantian position. Basic to this argument is a distinction between implicit and explicit rationality and the claim that the principles on which an explicitly rational being acts must satisfy Kant's initial rendering of the Categorical Imperative: "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law (of nature that others so act)."