Saturday, December 22, 2012

Practical Reason and Progressive Reason

As has been previously discussed, Pure Practical Reason is Spirit applied to personal conduct--it promotes example-setting processes, e. g. the generating of laws.  But, like Artistic Spirit, the only example that, in the final analysis, it sets is its own innovativeness.  Thus, the principle of Pure Practical Reason is a formula for universal innovative personal conduct.  Now, novelty is always relative to antecedent conditions; hence, the latter are always entailed in the former.  In other words, Innovation is always Progression.  Thus, Pure Practical Reason is Progressive Reason, applied to personal conduct.

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