Method, Technical Reason, Autonomy

Technical Reason is procedure in accordance with an ordered sequence of concepts.  Thus, a Method is an expression of Technical Reason.  So, even though Modern Rationalism and Modern Empiricism are each Methods, their common basis remains unrecognized by each in most of the works of Modern Philosophy.  Spinoza implicitly employs Technical Reason in his brief discussion of the concept of Definition, e. g. how to draw a Circle, but he never develops it explicitly when discussing Reason.  Kant glimpses it, in his concept of Schematism, but fails to recognize the equivalence of Technical Reason and Autonomy, conduct guided by a rule that one gives oneself.  As a result, in the Critique of Practical Reason, it is not that Technical Reason is an "art concealed in the depth of the human soul".  Rather, Technical Reason is suppressed by Kant in the concept of Pure Practical Reason, which is a kind of Reason by means of which a human can conform to the standards of an incorporeal deity, thereby compromising the concept of Autonomy.  Comparable is the concept of human Free Will that is compromised by the Theological imperative that only one choice is acceptable.   Technical Reason is thus correspondingly suppressed in the Critique of Judgment--characterized there as a faculty that can be attributable only heuristically, by humans, to Nature or to a Natural being.  So, because of his Theological commitments, Kant squanders an opportunity to expose the Rationalism, and the entailed Autonomy, that transcends the presumed Rationalism vs. Empiricism conflict of Modern Philosophy.