not the censorship but the criticism of reason, whereby not its present bounds but its determinate and necessary limits.” įull Text, translated by J. But a third step, such as can be taken only by fully matured judgment, based on assured principles of proved universality, is now necessary, namely to subject to examination, not the facts of reason, but reason itself. The second, which we have just mentioned, is sceptical, and it gives evidence that our judgement has been improved by experience. Kants philosophy focuses attention on the active role of human reason in the process of knowing the world and on its autonomy in giving moral law. “The first step in regard to the subjects of pure reason, and which marks the infancy of that faculty, is dogmatic. Immanuel Kant: Ethics Reference Archive Immanuel Kant
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