Bencivenga, Ermanno Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530735-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307351.003.0005
 

Ermanno Bencivenga
Since humans are not perfectly rational, moral laws have a deontic, imperative character for them: what these laws claim to be necessary does not always occur. But humans must be guided in their behavior by the trust that perfect rationality will triumph in the end. They must proceed as if nature and reason will eventually harmonize, however intellectually convinced they might be that it will never happen.
Keywords: imperatives, rationality, deontic
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307351.003.0005
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