Practical Reason
Practical Reason
(Kant. Ger. praktische Vernunft) Reason or reflective thought concerned with the issues of voluntary decision and action. Practical reason includes “everything which is possible by or through freedom.” In general, practical reason deals with the problems of ethics. Kant asserted the primacy of practical reason over theoretical reason, and also asserted as practical postulates (q.v.) certain conceptions which were not theoretically demonstrable. See Kantianism. — O.F.K.