Kant's Rationality
After establishing that morality implies rationality, Kant shows that rationality, in turn, implies freedom. Rationality, according to Kant, consists in it rules of reason and morals. For instance, thinking rationally and living morally are both arrangements of rationality. If one violates rationality, then it can be said that their will is determined by external causes. Reason on the other hand, regulates will internally. The instructions of rationality are as such, for both thought and morality, the will is precise which is that every rational being is expected to act according to reason. Categorical imperative demands the will to act in such a way that it creates its own laws and subjects itself to them. These laws must conform to reason,
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Unlike Spirit itself, Hegel believes that the will is reliant on external factors. Hegel derives that freedom becomes explicit and objective in the rationality of the State which is located in the understanding of the universal will in the self-consciousness of particular individuals. This awareness is then raised to consciousness of universality. In Philosophy of Right, he says, “Since the state is mind objectified, it is only as one of its members that the individual himself has objectivity, genuine individuality, and an ethical life. Unification pure and simple is the true content and aim of the individual, and the individual's destiny is the living of a universal life" (258). If the state has included freedom of the universal or substantial will and there is freedom of everyone in knowing and willing of particular ends, rationality is also present. In this condition, rationality is in entity's unwavering actions or the state’s laws and principles which are rational universal views. State can be attested to be of Constitutional Law or a self-dependent entity. One state has a relationship to another state in International Law and finally, it is the universal idea of Spirit which gives the state its authenticity. In this state, the individuals are granted freedom exactly as much that has been recognized as universal. This universal freedom has been embodied in the principles and laws of the
Unlike Spirit itself, Hegel believes that the will is reliant on external factors. Hegel derives that freedom becomes explicit and objective in the rationality of the State which is located in the understanding of the universal will in the self-consciousness of particular individuals. This awareness is then raised to consciousness of universality. In Philosophy of Right, he says, “Since the state is mind objectified, it is only as one of its members that the individual himself has objectivity, genuine individuality, and an ethical life. Unification pure and simple is the true content and aim of the individual, and the individual's destiny is the living of a universal life" (258). If the state has included freedom of the universal or substantial will and there is freedom of everyone in knowing and willing of particular ends, rationality is also present. In this condition, rationality is in entity's unwavering actions or the state’s laws and principles which are rational universal views. State can be attested to be of Constitutional Law or a self-dependent entity. One state has a relationship to another state in International Law and finally, it is the universal idea of Spirit which gives the state its authenticity. In this state, the individuals are granted freedom exactly as much that has been recognized as universal. This universal freedom has been embodied in the principles and laws of the