Thursday, September 22, 2016

Pure Practical Reason and Law

Kant's Pure Practical Reason can also be characterized as Legislative Reason or Legislative Will.  For, according to him, it is the faculty that creates Laws--not merely edicts, but formulations that qualify as Laws by entailing Universality, the fundamental characteristic of a Law.  Now, in his system, Pure Practical Reason functions primarily as the basis of Morality, as a vehicle of an Individual's transcendence of external influences.  But, it is also potentially relevant to Political Philosophy.  For, its concept of Universalizability offers a criterion for weeding out any partisanship from presumably egalitarian legislative processes.

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