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    Kant's own regulative use of ideas permits rational pursu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If the realization of the highest good is not possible, then we cannot rationally promote the highest good as an end

    Kant's own regulative use of ideas permits rational pursuit of ends whose full realization transcends possible experience.

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    • 1.Regulative ideas (God, freedom, soul) guide inquiry without requiring proof, enabling systematic moral and scientific progress.
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    • 2.Rational agents must pursue ideals like moral perfection even though complete achievement exceeds empirical verification.
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    • 3.Distinguishing regulative from constitutive use protects transcendent ends from empirical refutation while preserving rational legitimacy.
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    • 1.The regulative/constitutive distinction is unstable: treating ideas as rationally necessary guides collapses into treating them as real.
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    • 2.Ends transcending possible experience cannot coherently guide conduct, since rational action requires conceivable feedback and success criteria.
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