The Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant · English
The Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788, is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and extends the ethics of his Groundwork.
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The Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788, is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and extends the ethics of his Groundwork. Kant argues that pure reason can by itself determine the will through the moral law, and he examines the principles, object, and motives of pure practical reason. The Dialectic takes up the highest good, the union of virtue and happiness, and argues that morality requires us to postulate freedom, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of God. A short Methodology follows, and the book closes with a reflection on the starry heavens above and the moral law within. This is Thomas Kingsmill Abbott's translation.
The Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant · English
The Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788, is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and extends the ethics of his Groundwork.
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This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term. The reason of this appears sufficiently from the treatise itself. Its business is to show that there is pure practical reason, and for this purpose it criticizes the entire practical faculty of reason. If it succeeds in this, it has no need to criticize the pure faculty itself in order to see whether reason in making
Pagera Editor's Note
The Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788, is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and extends the ethics of his Groundwork. Kant argues that pure reason can by itself determine the will through the moral law, and he examines the principles, object, and motives of pure practical reason. The Dialectic takes up the highest good, the union of virtue and happiness, and argues that morality requires us to postulate freedom, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of God. A short Methodology follows, and the book closes with a reflection on the starry heavens above and the moral law within. This is Thomas Kingsmill Abbott's translation.
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