The Critique of Practical Reason
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Reason, morality, freedom—these are the themes of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, the second in a series of three treatises that form a major work of philosophy and the eighteenth century Englightenment. In the first critique, Kant rejects the overextension of reasoning to issues such as God and immortality, although he certain believes that humans are rational creatures. In this second critique, Kant turns his attention to morality and ethics. Divided into “Analytic” and “Dialectic” sections, Kant’s argument proceeds logically, almost as if he were demonstrating a mathematical proof. He advances a claim concerning universal law: a moral law must hold universally, otherwise it is no law at all. We must always act as if our maxims could be universally applicable to others. Kant’s term for this famous idea is the “categorical imperative.” Since the categorical imperative and the associated moral law is one that is based internally, the person who follows it will be free, unrestricted by external prohibitions. Moreover, we only become aware of our own freedom by following this moral law. Throughout his treatise, Kant grapples with these enormous issues with skill and subtlety, demonstrating why his Critiques still continue to influence philosophy today.
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PREFACE.
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 ...
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