TY - JOUR N2 - The author submits a brief account of his claim concerning the ethical component of the speaking beings’ nature. He voiced these views at a number of places, beginning with his works in the mid‑nineties. As against Kant’s idea of God being the source of moralisches Gefühl, or of his „categorical imperative”, the logically necessary (and thus sufficient) root of speaking beings’ ethical nature must be seen in their language faculty as such (while nothing deprives God of what used to be called „His gift” of that faculty). A linguistic‑analytic reasoning that leads to the above conclusion is presented. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/119753/2021-01-PFIL-01-Boguslawski.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/119753 PY - 2021 IS - No 1 EP - 13 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2021.136777 KW - categorical imperative KW - ethics KW - natural language KW - nature KW - speaking beings A1 - Bogusławski, Andrzej PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2021.05.14 T1 - Where does the ethical component of speaking beings’ nature come from? From their natural language endowment SP - 5 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/119753 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -