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6190 | The sole objects of practical reason are the good and the evil [Kant] |
Full Idea: The sole objects of a practical reason are thus those of the good and the evil. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason [1788], I.1.II) | |
A reaction: Of course, you may aim to achieve x because it is good, while I judge x to be evil. |
21059 | General rules of action also need a judgement about when to apply them [Kant] |
Full Idea: A concept of the understanding, which contains the general rule, must be supplemented by an act of judgement whereby the practitioner distinguishes instances where the rule applies from those where it does not. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (True in Theory, but not in Practice [1792], Intro) | |
A reaction: This is Aristotle's phronesis, and Hart's 'rules of recognition' in law courts. So is the link between theory and practice an intellectual one, or a sort of inarticulate intuition? I like 'common sense' for this ability. |