We have therefore to observe the impression made upon our human endowment of practical Reason, when looking face to face at these two fact-beliefs, which for brevity's sake we shall call the Natural and the Supernatural.
But, as a question of practical reason, the Natural Realist explains the outer world of individual existences, and his explanation tallies both with its phenomena and our own relations to them.
These conditions, the postulates of practical reason, are the concrete expressions of the three transcendental ideas, and in them we have the full significance of the ideas for reason.
The question of transcendental freedom is purely speculative, and we may therefore set it entirely aside when we come to treat of practical reason.
According to Aristotle Morality is "the activity of Practical Reason, which is accompanied by pleasurable emotion.
For finite holy beings (which cannot even be tempted to the violation of duty) there is no doctrine of virtue, but only moral philosophy, the latter being an autonomy of practical reason, whereas the former is also an autocracy of it.
Now the Categorical Imperative of Practical Reason is the law which results from this process of thought.
For the conceptions which are implicitly involved in his Imperative, and which lie hidden at the base of his Morals, only required to be brought forward and expressed explicitly as postulates of Practical Reason.
During more than half a century it has been lying comfortably on the restful cushion which Kant arranged for it--the cushion of the Categorical Imperative of Practical Reason.
His "practical reason" speaks directly to the individual.
The conflict of Practical Reason with irrational desire remains an indubitable fact of our conscious experience, even if practical reason is interpreted to mean merely self-regarding Prudence.
Consequently as practical reason or as the will of a rational being it must regard itself as free, that is to say, the will of such a being cannot be a will of its own except under the idea of freedom.
Religion ultimately then rests upon the practical reason, and expresses some demand or want of the pure ego.
Only in the sphere of practical reason, where the intelligible nature prescribed to itself its own laws, was there the possibility of systematic deduction from a single principle.
The practice of developed capitalism about the middle of the 19th century directly challenged proletarian thinkers to criticise Kant's doctrine of practical reason.
The physical feeling of man is the object of moral standards, the object of "practical reason.
But the former postulates the possibility of an object itself (God and the immortality of the soul) from apodeictic practical laws, and therefore only for the purposes of a practical reason.
This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practical reason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
