practical reason

deontology

morality

categorical imperative

Immanuel Kant

is a call for formal 'duty' over and above desire-based practical reasoning.

a call for formal-- 'duty' over and above desire-based practical reasoning' (')

is the root of all reason... as such, we do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act... the practical reason is the root of all reason. Johann Gottlieb Fichte

is innate and not derived from experience.

We must show that "pure reason can be practical; i.e., can of itself determine the will independently of anything empirical," a that the moral sense is innate, and not derived from experience. The moral imperative which we need as the basis of religion must be an absolute, a categorical, imperative.

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practical reason