Extensive Example and Closing Remarks

This final chapter attempts to tie morality with rationality—although they appear to insist of independence from one another. Common between them is normativity. The essay has contended that rationality is primarily (as witnessed when seen in the context) normative. That fact would mean that they arise in practical, not speculative, philosophy. To help put these assertions in a concrete background, consider the moral situation referred to in previous chapters: human reproduction. Can both rationality and morality have something to say that distinguishes one from the other, or do they coincide substantially? The answer, I believe, indicates the two indeed fall under practical philosophy, but still are of quite different ontology and even origin in the universe.