thing as the Categorical Imperative) is a fact of consciousness, and cannot be traced further back, inasmuch as it declares itself by means of a direct consciousness.”

But in this case, it would have an anthropological, and consequently empirical, foundation — a position which is diametrically opposed to Kant's explicit and repeated utterances.

Again, on p. 108 we find: “Both in the practical philosophy of criticism, and in the whole of the purified or higher transcendental philosophy, Autonomy is that which is founded, and which founds, by itself alone; and which is neither capable of, nor requires, any other foundation; it is that which is absolutely original, true and certain per se; the primal truth; the prius ?at' ?????? (par excellence); the absolute