Technical Reason and Events

Kant more than merely systematizes the conflicting Modern Rationalism and Modern Empiricism.  He surpasses both traditions by, probably influenced by Newton, no longer conceiving the objects of Knowledge as things, but as events, and, hence as temporally constituted.  Accordingly, a link between concepts and a temporal sensory manifold is required, and Schematism provides that link in his system.  However, he still does not recognize that Newtonian Physics is itself only preparatory--for the harnessing of the forces that it represents.  Accordingly, even in recognizing the priority of Practical over Theoretical Reason, he does not recognize that the Experience of the World no longer consists in the mere observation of Events, but in the harnessing of them.  Thus, what is required by a Philosophical grounding of Experience is a Practical correlate of Schematism, i. e. a explanation of how concepts can harness causal relations, as if they were raw materials. That correlate is Technical Reason.  But, unlike Schematism, Technical Reason is not a hitherto concealed art only first discovered by Kant.  Rather, it is well-known as Techne, by Aristotle, and it is the basis of Method, which is familiar to all Kant's Modern predecessors, but never as itself an object of their studies.