Reason and Complacency

Kant's Principle of Pure Practical Reason immediately targets an already formulated Maxim, as a means to constraining certain behavior.  In contrast, Progressive Reason generates a Resolution, on the basis of which one might conscientiously exert oneself beyond extant behavior.  One advantage of the latter is in the case of one of Kant's own examples--Complacency, i. e. letting "one's talents rust".  For, Kant's procedure is applicable only where a Maxim has already been formed, a dubious possibility in the context of laziness, requiring inaction to be conceived as 'contradictory' in some respect.  In contrast, Progressive Reason directly promotes the voluntary substantive conduct that he himself agrees is the preferred alternative.