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ideal of pure reason

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noun

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


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

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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