Theory, Practice, Techne

Kant relies on Techne in the Critique of Judgment, in two ways.  First, and most prominent, he attributes to a 'Technic'  an Organic concept of Nature, the ultimate purpose of which is to serve as a medium for the Moral and Theological experience of individual Humans--by means of which the occurrence of Happiness can be judged to be a divine reward for Virtue.  Second, and only as a footnote, he classifies the Hypothetical Imperative, i. e. 'Do A as a means to B', as 'Technical', overriding his earlier classification of it as 'Practical', and diverging from Aristotle's traditional criterion for distinguishing between Techne and Praxis.  Accordingly, insofar as this concept of Technic combines Theory and Practice, the Third Critique systematically unifies the first two.  Now, alternatively possible on the basis of these same conceptual resources, is a concept of the Human species as an Organism that organizes its members, and their individual exercises of Technical Reason, by means of a general Technic, which they personally experience as what Kant calls 'Pure Practical Reason'.  But, this alternative unification of Theory and Practice, one that foreshadows Organicism and Ecologism, is preempted by his Theological commitments.