vating vanity, dependence, and the incapacity for rational self-direction. Drawing on the Dissenting traditi... itical argument for the inclusion of women in the rational civic order of Enlightenment liberalism. Wollston... independence, self-reliance, and the capacity for rational moral judgment rather than the passive compliance... compliant, and emotionally dependent rather than rational and autonomous. Wollstonecraft accused Rousseau o
moral law is "unconditionally obligatory" for all rational beings and must bind us in virtue of our rational... ey have genuinely understood and internalised the rational ground of moral obligation, not out of external c... e of reason" — the capacity to participate in the rational life of a civic community beyond the confines of ... in Kant's view, is a universal principle that all rational minds should uphold, and public education is the
which each learner draws in developing their own rational autonomy. The //Encyclopedia of the Philosophical... rd self-conceptualization, ethical awareness, and rational autonomy through engagement with culture, history... occurs. Where Kant grounded morality in universal rational duty, Hegel argued that the moral individual is a
er credited with the first systematic attempts at rational, non-mythological explanations of natural phenome... understanding of education as initiation into the rational order of the cosmos.
==== Soul Transmigration an... quality of its choices and the cultivation of its rational capacities, then education is not merely preparat
t religious movement that offered, he believed, a rational account of evil — before disillusionment with its... divine Word (Logos, Christ) dwelling within every rational soul as the source of truth. The external teacher... ch discipline trains a particular capacity of the rational soul and draws the learner progressively toward t
assists the natural development of the learner's rational capacity. This resolution of the theological prob... the student in activating and directing their own rational capacity. The physician intervenes from outside,