An enquiry concerning the deduction of the reality of freedom in Critique of Practical Reason of Kant
Author(s): LI Yang
Pages: 44-49
Year: 2014 Issue: 3
Journal: Journal of Central South University(Social Science)
Keyword: Kant; Critique of Practical Reason; a fact of reason; freedom; moral low; reciprocal relation; world of sense; world of understanding;
Abstract: In Critique of practical reason, Kant takes the moral law as a fact of pure reason which is apodictically certain. Therefore, the objectivity of it cannot be proved by any kind of deduction, conversely, the moral law itself servers as the principle of the deduction of freedom. Because freedom and the moral law reciprocally imply each other, from which the reality of freedom can be deduced. And with the distinction between world of sense and world of understanding, the confliction of freedom to necessity is avoided. Through this deduction, in its practical use pure reason obtains the right to extension which is not possible to it in its speculative use.
Pages: 44-49
Year: 2014 Issue: 3
Journal: Journal of Central South University(Social Science)
Keyword: Kant; Critique of Practical Reason; a fact of reason; freedom; moral low; reciprocal relation; world of sense; world of understanding;
Abstract: In Critique of practical reason, Kant takes the moral law as a fact of pure reason which is apodictically certain. Therefore, the objectivity of it cannot be proved by any kind of deduction, conversely, the moral law itself servers as the principle of the deduction of freedom. Because freedom and the moral law reciprocally imply each other, from which the reality of freedom can be deduced. And with the distinction between world of sense and world of understanding, the confliction of freedom to necessity is avoided. Through this deduction, in its practical use pure reason obtains the right to extension which is not possible to it in its speculative use.
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