From theoretical to practical reason

pp. 337-357

in: Otfried Höffe, Kant's critique of pure reason, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

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.