Reason's only role with respect to conduct is to achieve a consistency with respect to our beliefs, desires, and actions.
Reason's only role with respect to conduct is to achieve a consistency with respect to our beliefs, desires, and actions.
This is implausible, since then a consistent person who is misinformed and ignorant has satisfied all the demands of reason with respect to conduct.
Reason's only role with respect to conduct is to achieve a consistency with respect to our beliefs, desires, and actions.
While consistency is important (and is the main focus of my book), practical rationality includes more than this. We also need, for example, to be informed on the facts of the case and to have an imaginative sensitivity to what these facts mean to people's lives.