"[Hume and Kant] believe that the moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from..."

“[Hume and Kant] believe that the moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from the requirements of our living together in society. They also believe that the knowledge or awareness of how we are to act is directly accessible to every person who is normally reasonable and conscientious. And finally, they believe that we are so constituted that we have in our nature sufficient motives to lead us to act as we ought without the need of external sanctions, at least in the form of rewards bestowed and punishments imposed by God or the state. Indeed, both Hume and Kant are about as far as one can get from the view that only a few can have moral knowledge and that all or most people must be made to do what is right by means of such sanctions.”

- Rawls, John, and Barbara Herman. Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, p. 11. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Print. (via academicatheism)

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/147847159977