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(2009) Kant's critique of pure reason, Dordrecht, Springer.

From theoretical to practical reason

Otfried Höffe

pp. 337-357

The "Transcendental Doctrine of Method", the concluding section of the first Critique, begins with theoretical considerations, and thus with experience, and therefore initially unfolds a negative ontology. But this rejection of intellectual self-deception, of conceptual delusions, fabrications and empty fictions, is immediately followed by a plea on behalf of pure practical reason, and even a claim for the priority of the latter. The "dwelling-house" that is truly "appropriate to our needs' (B 735) thus accommodates not merely theoretical reason, but reason in its entirety.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2722-1_21

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Höffe, O. (2009). From theoretical to practical reason, in Kant's critique of pure reason, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 337-357.

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