Friday, October 19, 2012

Reason, Faculty, Force

Kant's subordination of Practical Reason to Theoretical Reason entails that of Agency to Subjectivity, and, hence, that of the concept of Reason as dynamic force, to that of it as transcendental faculty.  But, a dynamical force is, in his system, a 'natural' force.  Thus, his concept of Deity as rational, supernatural, and efficacious, is problematic.  Accordingly, the absence of a full development of a concept of Agency, one in which, e. g., Space is a Form of Action, not of Intuition, perhaps reflects Kant's theological commitments.

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