Hardik asked:

What would you answer if someone asked you to discuss Kant's arguments for grounding morality in
reason and his formulations of the Categorical Imperative?

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I would approach this question by looking carefully at the idea of reason. Kant seems to think that
reason is universal and unchanging. This, I think, is wrong. The proliferation of logics we see at
present seems to bear this out. Kant thinks that reason has nothing to do with inclinations, desires or
emotions. That, too, I think is wrong. Kant says that every 'rational being' imposes the Categorical
Imperative upon themselves through reason. Yet his arguments as to why it must be imposed is
extremely complex and beyond the understanding of many — so how could they have imposed the CI
through reason?

To me, morality cannot be grounded in emotion alone, nor in the sort of austere and hyper-logical
reason that Kant champions. Morality needs reason, but it needs a much richer conception of reason
that includes an emotional aspect.

Tim Sprod