ideal of pure reason

American  

noun

Kantianism.

1. God, seen as an idea of pure reason unifying the personal soul with the cosmos.

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Example Sentences

Thus it becomes the conception of an individual object, which is completely determined by and through the mere idea, and must consequently be termed an ideal of pure reason.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

This dialectical argument I shall call the ideal of pure reason.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

The conception of such a being is the conception of God in its transcendental sense, and thus the ideal of pure reason is the object-matter of a transcendental theology.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow