充满智慧、幽默的哈佛大学公开课-第11讲服从你的动机(22)

The reason we need to respect the dignity of persons is that we"re all rational beings, we all have the capacity for reason and it"s the exercise of that capacity for reason which exists undifferentiated in all of us that makes us worthy of dignity, all of us.
And since it"s the same capacity for reason, unqualified by particular autobiographies and life circumstance, it"s the same universal capacity for reason that delivers the moral law.
我们之所以需要尊重他人尊严，是因为我们都是理性存在，我们都具有理性思考的能力，而正是通过存在于我们所有人中的这种无差别的理性思考能力的运用，才使得我们所有人都值得尊重。也因为这种理性思考的能力都是相同的，不受特定的生活经历以及生活环境所限定，这是同一种能够生成道德法则的普遍理性。
It turns out that to act autonomously is to act according to a law we give ourselves exercising our reason, but it"s the reason we share with everyone as rational beings, not the particular reasons we have given our upbringings, our particular values, our particular interests.
It"s pure practical reason, in Kant"s terms, which legislates a priori regardless of any particular contingent or empirical ends.