• practical reason is the use of reason to decide how to act. It contrasts with theoretical reason, often called speculative reason, the use of reason to...
    8 KB (909 words) - 17:08, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Critique of Practical Reason
    The Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, published in 1788. Hence,...
    41 KB (6,006 words) - 19:52, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Critique of Pure Reason
    of Practical Reason (1788) and Critique of Judgment (1790). In the preface to the first edition, Kant explains that by a "critique of pure reason" he...
    115 KB (16,137 words) - 14:07, 4 June 2025
  • Pure practical reason (German: reine praktische Vernunft) is reasoning that deals with what ought to be; namely, what actions we ought to do, appearing...
    2 KB (227 words) - 16:56, 5 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Categorical imperative
    pure practical reason, which is contrasted with: pure reason, which is the capacity to know without having been shown; and mere practical reason, by which...
    38 KB (5,674 words) - 14:14, 12 April 2025
  • nature. Under practical reason, the moral autonomy or freedom of people depends on their ability, by the proper exercise of that reason, to behave according...
    97 KB (11,654 words) - 08:39, 12 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for David Hume
    he is just a sceptic of practical reason. Hume denied the existence of practical reason as a principle because he claimed reason does not have any effect...
    187 KB (21,891 words) - 12:05, 15 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
    of his trilogy of major works on ethics alongside the Critique of Practical Reason and The Metaphysics of Morals. It remains one of the most influential...
    45 KB (6,717 words) - 14:48, 16 April 2025
  • some cases, the demands of practical and theoretical rationality conflict with each other. For example, the practical reason of loyalty to one's child...
    135 KB (15,419 words) - 21:53, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Critique of Judgment
    Critique of Judgment follows the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the Critique of Practical Reason (1788). Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is the...
    21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:48, 16 May 2025
  • of Hume's theory of practical reason is that "reason is...the slave of the passions". It restricts the sphere of practical reason to instrumental rationality...
    38 KB (4,283 words) - 07:15, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kantian ethics
    defined in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, and the Metaphysics of Morals. While the Groundwork of the Metaphysics...
    70 KB (9,631 words) - 12:09, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Critical philosophy
    critical texts of the Kantian corpus are the Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgement, published between 1781 and 1790...
    2 KB (175 words) - 10:06, 18 April 2025
  • properly speaking. The theoretical reason gives no commands. The practical reason operates in the form of a practical syllogism, whose conclusion is epitactic...
    5 KB (713 words) - 05:13, 14 January 2025
  • philosopher Immanuel Kant devised an argument from morality based on practical reason. Kant argued that the goal of humanity is to achieve perfect happiness...
    18 KB (2,305 words) - 17:06, 25 February 2025
  • reason and practical reason. These are capacities that draw on epistemic reasons (matters of fact and of explanation) or practical reasons (reasons for...
    6 KB (706 words) - 03:29, 7 December 2024
  • of – Psychological egoism – Psychology, philosophy of – Pure practical reason – Pure reason – Pyrrhonian skepticism – Pyrrhonism – Pythagoreanism Qingtan...
    16 KB (1,006 words) - 23:49, 12 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Immanuel Kant
    of Practical Reason. The Critique of the Power of Judgment argues we may rationally hope for the harmonious unity of the theoretical and practical domains...
    153 KB (18,846 words) - 12:24, 11 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Desire
    disagreement whether desires should be understood as practical reasons or whether we can have practical reasons without having a desire to follow them. According...
    74 KB (9,651 words) - 09:32, 30 May 2025
  • dictate of the practical reason deciding that any particular action is right or wrong, synderesis is a dictate of the same practical reason which has for...
    4 KB (493 words) - 03:17, 4 June 2025
  • Phronesis (redirect from Practical wisdom)
    maint: postscript (link) Wiggins, David (1975–1976). "Deliberation and Practical Reason". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 76: 29–51. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/76...
    14 KB (1,251 words) - 23:11, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Morality
    hypothetical decrees of a perfectly rational being, respectively. Practical reason is necessary for the moral agency but it is not a sufficient condition...
    80 KB (9,295 words) - 10:11, 9 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ruth Chang
    known for her research on the incommensurability of values and on practical reason and normativity. She is also widely known for her work on decision-making...
    14 KB (1,074 words) - 22:55, 26 March 2025
  • different line. The question that we have most reason to do ties into the good working of practical reason. This in turn is tied to the idea of the species...
    24 KB (2,802 words) - 01:20, 16 May 2025
  • Critique of Practical Reason (PDF). Translated by Rudisill, Philip McPherson. p. 29. Kant, Immanuel (2019) [1788]. The Critique of Practical Reason (PDF)....
    43 KB (5,528 words) - 13:33, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hypothetical imperative
    of Morals, 4:413, 4:416. 4:417. Immanuel Kant (1788), Critique of Practical Reason, Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 1: Definition. Hypothetical Imperatives...
    5 KB (632 words) - 14:33, 5 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kantianism
    Press) Lewis White Beck (1960) A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (University of Chicago Press) R. Beiner and W.J. Booth (eds.) (1993)...
    9 KB (969 words) - 02:00, 3 June 2025
  • means of pure reason. Kant thought that some certain antinomies of his (God and Freedom) could be resolved as "Postulates of Practical Reason". He used them...
    4 KB (486 words) - 06:15, 27 December 2024
  • translated several of Kant's works from German, including the Critique of Practical Reason, and authored Studies in the Philosophy of Kant (1965). Born in Griffin...
    43 KB (4,893 words) - 14:29, 5 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Intelligent agent
    paradigm are studied in cognitive science, ethics, and the philosophy of practical reason, as well as in many interdisciplinary socio-cognitive modeling and...
    74 KB (7,068 words) - 12:40, 15 June 2025