Ideas of Pure Reason
Ideas of Pure Reason
(Kant. Ger. Ideen der reinen Vernunft) Ideas, expounded and criticized in the “Transcendental Dialectic” of the Cr. of Pure Reason, in which an absolute whole determines the parts in an aggregate or as series. For Kant there were three such Ideasthe soul, the world, and God. He maintained that these Ideas did not constitute “objects”, but claimed for them a regulative use in pure reason, and asserted their reality as postulates of practical reason. See Kantianism. — O.F.K.