Legislating the moral law

Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will in some sense legislates. He regarded this thesis as an important philosophical discovery, and it first appears with the introduction of the Formula of Autonomy, whose central idea is that of "the will of every rational being as a will that legislates universa

Will, Obligatory Ends and the Completion of Practical Reason: Comments on Barbara Herman's Moral Literacy

AbstractThis paper discusses three inter-related themes in Barbara Herman'sMoral Literacy– the idea that, for Kant, the will is a ‘norm-constituted power’ whose activity is guided by its own internal norm, that the obligatory ends are reasonably viewed as the ends of all rational choice, and that morality ‘completes’ practical reason or rational agency.</jats:p

Thermal, deformation, and degassing remote sensing time‐series (A.D. 2000‐2017) at the 47 most active volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for volcanic systems

Volcanoes are hazardous to local and global populations, but only a fraction are continuously monitored by ground‐based sensors. For example, in Latin America, more than 60% of Holocene volcanoes are unmonitored, meaning long‐term multi‐parameter datasets of volcanic activity are rare and sparse. We use satellite observations of degassing, thermal anomalies, and surface deformation spanning 17 years at 47 of the most active volcanoes in Latin America, and compare these datasets to ground‐based observations archived by the Global Volcanism Program (GVP). This first comparison of multi‐satellite time‐series on a regional scale provides information regarding volcanic behavior during, non‐, pre‐, syn‐ and post‐eruptive periods. For example, at Copahue volcano, deviations from background activity in all three types of satellite measurements were manifested months to years in advance of renewed eruptive activity in 2012. By quantifying the amount of degassing, thermal output, and deformation measured at each of these volcanoes, we test the classification of these volcanoes as open or closed volcanic systems. We find that ~28% of the volcanoes do not fall into either classification and the rest show elements of both, demonstrating a dynamic range of behavior that can change over time. Finally, we recommend how volcano monitoring could be improved through better coordination of available satellite‐based capabilities and new instruments