Noumenon, Formal Causality, Organism

A cardinal principle of Kant's system is the possibility of a Noumenal Cause of a Phenomenal Effect.  In the Critique of Judgment, such Causality is Teleological, e. g. Purposive behavior, since a Purpose is non-sensible.  Now, probably the most important Noumenal Causality in the system is that of Pure Practical Reason.  However, that Causality is not Teleological, so, since the only other Causality that Kant recognizes is Efficient, i. e. Mechanical, by default, the Causality of Pure Practical Reason must be Efficient.  However, there is a third possibility, a Causality that is implicit throughout his system, the source of Synthesis--Formal Causality.  Thus, the imposition of the criterion of Universality on individual behavior, by Pure Practical Reason, can easily be classified as Formal Causality.  Furthermore, instead of the awkward definition of Organism in terms of Teleological Causality, i. e. a system of reciprocal Purposes, it can instead be more elegantly defined as a manifold of functions unified by a Formal Cause.  Plus, since that definition leaves the scope of its application indeterminate, both a Species, and each of its members alike, can be conceived as an Organism.  On that basis, the source of Pure Practical Reason can be the Formal Causality of the Species, i. e.  influencing the behavior of one of its members.  So, at Kant's disposal is an Organicism that would be visionary for its time, but he is more concerned to devote his innovations to undoing the damage done to traditional Theology by the Copernican Revolution.