Single Idea 11046

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality]

Full Idea

The 'principled' (Kantian) sense of rationality means the possession of a capacity for generating or recognizing necessary truths, a priori beliefs, strictly universal normative rules, nonconsequentialist moral obligations, and categorical 'ought' claims.

Gist of Idea

Kantian principled rationality is recognition of a priori universal truths

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], Intro)

Book Reference

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.-6