I. Kant on the Nuances of Theoretical and Practical Cognition (Article Two)

Kant was the first to open the fact that there is a difference between the way practical rules of conduct are learned and the way theoretical sciences cognate their subject matters. Article One was largely devoted to Kant’s views on theoretical and practical cognitive subject matters (the objects of experience and the rules of conduct). This Article Two focuses on Kant’s ideas of the two ways of cognition matter. Special attention is paid to Kant’s views on the particular forms of intellectual cognitive faculty –understanding, judgment and reason – involved into theoretical and practical cognition. The article considers the peculiarities of a number of terms (e.g. philosophy, postulate) used by Kant that had different meanings from what they mean today.