Hence, it was
found in the Dialectic of the Pure Speculative Reason that the two
apparently opposite methods of obtaining for the conditioned the
unconditioned were not really contradictory, e.g., in the synthesis of
causality to conceive for the conditioned in the series of causes
and effects of the sensible world, a causality which has no sensible
condition, and that the same action which, as belonging to the world
of sense, is always sensibly conditioned, that is, mechanically
necessary, yet at the same time may be derived from a causality not
sensibly conditioned- being the causality of the acting being as
belonging to the supersensible world- and may consequently be
conceived as free. Now, the only point in question was to change
this may be into is; that is, that we should be able to show in an
actual case, as it were by a fact, that certain actions imply such a
causality (namely, the intellectual, sensibly unconditioned),
whether they are actual or only commanded, that is, objectively
necessary in a practical sense.
Pages:
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205