Spirit, Progressive Reason, Morality

Because Kant's principle of Pure Practical Reason is to be implemented for its own sake, regardless of any ends that might eventuate from it, it is a non-teleological principle.  Now, the interpretation of the principle as that of one of the non-teleological varieties of Reason surveyed--Distributive Reason--has already been discussed.  Alternatively, as that of the other variety--Progressive Reason--it is consistent with the theses that Spirit and Reason are identical, and that Spirit animates originality.  For, on that interpretation, the principle animates creative conduct just as Spirit animates innovative Art.  So, since novelty is relative to antecedent conditions, the content of Progressive Reason is necessarily contingent, e. g. with respect to historical conditions, in which case the abstractness of the principle is a virtue, not a deficiency, as Hegel, for one, charges.  Furthermore, because varying degrees of novelty are always possible in principle, the proper evaluation of progressive conduct is, likewise, in terms of degrees of originality, i. e. as more or less original.  In other words, traditional dualist Moral axiology, e. g. '"good" vs. "evil"', is inappropriate for a Progressive Morality, a doctrine which is implied by the concept of Reason that Kant briefly, though unarguably, entertains in the Second Thesis of his Idea for a Universal History.