Abstract:
The final Conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason is generally considered to be the conclusion of the whole book, but by reading the text carefully, it can be seen that it is only the conclusion of the second part of the book, the Methodology of Purely Practical Reason. This methodology is actually the one of pure practical reason itself, which has been established in comparison with the methodology of theoretical reason (i.e. of natural science) and using the latter as an example. This methodology is at the same time the methodology of moral education, that is, first to stimulate the inner admiration and awe of the learner with the power of example, but immediately, these examples should be analyzed, in order to extract the “practical wisdom” of purely practical reason from its various elements and establish a “science” in which theory and the practice are unified, and in this way, arbitrariness and fanaticism can be avoided.
