Aristotle, Kant, and Logic

Aristotle's treatment of 'Logic', in his case, 'Syllogistic', appears in a work called Organon. In contrast, Kant explicitly characterizes his concept of Logic as a 'canon'--while an 'organon' describes the basic patterns of knowledge-presenting procedures, a 'canon' distinguishes between proper and improper patterns of those processes. Hence, Kantian Logic is part of his more general Critique of Pure Reason. But, contrary to the common use of the term 'critique', an expression of denigration, for him it refers to a process of distinguishing proper from improper. Or, in other words, the activity of Critique is nothing but a process of Definition, and what Kant's Critical project ultimately aims at is an answer to the question 'What is Man?' The answer that he arrives at includes the thesis that Human Pure Reason is properly Practical, which facilitates a definition of Humans as autonomous beings. Now, as has been previously discussed, Human Autonomy is an Evolvement beyond mere Particularity. Hence, Kantian Logic is an Evolvement from Aristotelian Logic.