practical reason is the use of reason to decide how to act. It contrasts with theoretical reason, often called speculative reason, the use of reason to...

The Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, published in 1788. Hence,...

Pure practical reason (German: reine praktische Vernunft) is the opposite of impure (or sensibly-determined) practical reason and appears in Immanuel Kant's...

of Practical Reason (1788) and Critique of Judgment (1790). In the preface to the first edition, Kant explains that by a "critique of pure reason" he...

pure practical reason, which is contrasted with: pure reason, which is the capacity to know without having been shown; and mere practical reason, by which...

nature. Under practical reason, the moral autonomy or freedom of people depends on their ability, by the proper exercise of that reason, to behave according...

of Hume's theory of practical reason is that "reason is...the slave of the passions". It restricts the sphere of practical reason to instrumental rationality...

reason and practical reason. These are capacities that draw on epistemic reasons (matters of fact and of explanation) or practical reasons (reasons for...

some cases, the demands of practical and theoretical rationality conflict with each other. For example, the practical reason of loyalty to one's child...

he is just a sceptic of practical reason. Hume denied the existence of practical reason as a principle because he claimed reason does not have any effect...