If it could be shown that this distinction is no other than relative, then the material and mechanical system would no longer maintain its speculative priority, and the objects of both types of reason would preserve absolute guarantee neither of one type nor the other. The first of these two conditions is simply the question whether there is any other than a provisional distinction between the objectsof practical and speculative reason. The validity of the ethics of practical reason rests on: (1) the possibility of an absolute distinction between practical and speculative reason, and (2) the possibility of an escape from the paradoxes of practical morality into an absolute realm of pure law. “Report on the Ethics of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason,” dated, is Eliot’s third and final essay for “Philosophy 15: The Kantian Philosophy.” In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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