and this point I shall take up again later on — that here reason, because, and in so far as, it works out the above explained special ratiocination, receives the name of practical reason. Now the Categorical Imperative of Practical Reason is the law which results from this process of thought. Consequently Practical Reason is not in the least what most people, including even Fichte, have regarded it — a special faculty that cannot be traced to its source, a qualitas occulta, a sort of moral instinct, like Hutcheson's “moral sense”; but it is (as Kant himself in his preface, p.

xii. [R., p. 8], and elsewhere, often enough declares) one and the same with theoretical reason — is, in fact, theoretical reason itself, in so far as the latter works out the ratiocinative process I have